MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: surveillance is not spying? Not according to the NY Times in 2013.

>>6173644

>they are now trying to say that surveillance is not spying

Not according to the NY Times in 2013.

Notable: Hillary Clinton lavishes praise on Jacinda Ardern at New York summit

What an ensemble – Podesta beforehand and now HRC & Oprah praising NZ PM Ardern AKA Commie Cindy.

'Heart of a leader and mother': Hillary Clinton lavishes praise on Jacinda Ardern at New York summit

14/04/2019

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/04/heart-of-a-leader-and-mother-hillary-clinton-lavishes-praise-on-jacinda-ardern-at-new-york-summit.html

‘Hillary Clinton believes the world would be different if it were led by women, and has singled out Jacinda Ardern as an example.

While speaking at the 10th annual Women in the World summit in New York City, the former Secretary of State was asked if she thinks female leaders govern differently to men.’

Notable: Facebook down for some users: Downdetector.com

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-outages-idUSKCN1RQ0BE

Facebook down for some users: Downdetector.com

Facebook Inc’s social networking site is inaccessible to some users across the world on Sunday, according to Downdetector.com, a website which monitors outages.

The outage tracking website showed that there are more than 9000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook.

Downdetector.com’s live outage map showed that the issues mainly cropped up in Europe.

Separately, Downdetector.com also showed that there were issues with WhatsApp and Instagram, but with relatively lower count of outage reports.

Facebook had experienced one of its longest outages in March, when some users around the globe faced trouble accessing Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for over 24 hours.

Notable: >>6173503, >>6173485, >>6173550 refresher on the Smith/Mundt act, CALL TO DIG

Just a refresher on the Smith/Mundt act which went away in 2013…

The STATE DEPARTMENT decides what is propaganda? Who was head of the State Department in 2013? Just sayin'

Board of Governors next dig for me…

The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt Act, is the basic legislative authorization for propaganda activities conducted by the U.S. Department of State, sometimes called "public diplomacy". The act was first introduced by Congressman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD) in January 1945 in the 79th Congress. It was subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948.

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was contained within the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (section 1078 (a)) amended the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987, allowing for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be available within the United States.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Mundt_Act

https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-ban-spreads-government-made-news-to-americans/

Notable: DoD twat - "Special Delivery"

Special delivery 📦

twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1117366888613289984

Notable: Glock awarded a 10 yr./$85 Million dollar contract for CBP weapons

US-based weapon maker, Glock Inc. has been awarded a ten-year $85 million contract to produce and delivery next generation standard duty handguns for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

“This contract provides CBP law enforcement personnel the latest in handgun technology and represents our commitment to providing the highest quality use-of-force tools and equipment to our law enforcement personnel who defend America’s frontline every day,”

Source

https://defence-blog.com/news/u-s-customs-and-border-protection-awards-glock-with-85m-contract-for-next-gen-handguns.html

Notable: GAA 'Vacation Update' Edition contains #7844-#7893.

GAA Update

"vacation update"Edition

I added #7844 to #7893 and updated the checksums.

mega.nz/#F!LPZxEIYJ!N5JwCNoxOxOtAoErKdUgvwa

Webarchive:

7844-7893.zip MD5: c0df6671b45c57146b4a6cb81227f991

HTML:

7844-7893.html.zip MD5: c56d340be63b5a9f96fd834b7f28e101

The archive now contains 7896 breads.

WWG1WGA

Notable: same files already cataloged by wikileaks.

>>6173032

Fake News

These are the same files already cataloged by wikileaks.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1117123131804737541

Notable: Assange's lawyer says he only fears 'US injustice'

Assange's lawyer says he only fears 'US injustice'

Wikileakes founder Julian Assange does not fear British or Swedish justice but "he is worried about facing US injustice," Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson told the Sophy Ridge Show on Sky News on Sunday.

Robinson said that there are no charges in Sweden against her client at the moment and added they will be dealt with if Sweden reopens the case in which Assange was accused of sexual assault. However, she noted the case was never about the charges in Sweden, but "the risk of extradition to the US."

Assange was arrested in the UK earlier this week when Ecuador revoked his asylum status. He was found guilty for breaching bail in the UK and is being charged for computer hacking conspiracy in the US.

https://www.breakingthenews.net/Article/Assange's-lawyer-says-he-only-fears-'US-injustice'/47505313

Notable: >>6173508 Ivanka Trump focuses on Africa

This editor is like reeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

Ivanka Trump focuses on Africa

Running largely contrary to Donald Trump’s “America First” philosophy of foreign policy, the president’s advisor and daughter Ivanka Trump is now in Africa where she is working towards development of a global women’s program, The Associated Pressreports. Ivanka Trump is currently visiting Ethiopia and Ivory Coast as part of the initiative through what is a four-day trip.

The president’s daughter will be visiting with women working in the local coffee industry and taking a tour of a women-run textile factory. Ivanka Trump will also be meeting with leaders and making an appearance at a World Bank policy summit.

Read also:23 April is the last day for Trump to submit tax records.

Regardless of her intentions, Trump will doubtlessly find herself attempting to navigate her father’s often vocalized opinions when it comes to international aid in addition to specific disparaging comments that he has made about the continent of Africa in general. Ivanka Trump has received some amount of praise and recognition for the project as well as the trip itself, though many critics are taking the opportunity to point out the disparity between her priorities and those of the White House as a whole.

Ivanka Trump’s travel to Africa follows a similar trip that First Lady Melania Trump recently took to the continent, in that case with a focus on the well being of children. The first lady was likewise force to navigate the rhetoric around her husband’s characterization of the area, including what was reported as a private comment by the president in which he referred to “s—hole countries” in Africa.

https://latestnewsinternational.com/index.php/2019/04/14/ivanka-trump-focuses-on-africa/

Notable: Secret document reveals plans for civil war in Lebanon, Israeli false flags, and invasion

WTF???????????????????????? oh wait israel last hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Secret Document Reveals Plans for Civil War in Lebanon, Israeli False Flags, and Invasion

Beirut (GPA) – During his visit with US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, Lebanese President Michael Aoun reportedly received a US-Israeli document detailing plans for creating a civil war in Lebanon with covert false flag operations and possible Israeli invasion.

Although the source of the document is Israeli and created in partnership with Washington, no one knows who presented it to Aoun. The Lebanese TV station, Al-Jadeed, initially reported the document on Lebanese TV and a video on its website. Geopolitics Alert translated the report for this article.

Israel and the United States Foment Civil War in Lebanon

The document details American plans to splinter the Lebanese Internal Security Forces, a domestic institution separate from the Lebanese Army. The plans involve Washington investing 200 million dollars into the Internal Security Forces (ISF) under the guise of keeping the peace but with the covert goal of creating sectarian conflict against Hezbollah with 2.5 million specifically dedicated to this purpose.

The document states the ultimate goal is to destabilize the country by creating a civil war in Lebanon which will “help Israel on the international scene.” The United States and Israel plan to accomplish this by supporting “democratic forces,” sounding remarkably similar to the same strategy used in Syria, Libya, Venezuela, and elsewhere.

According to the document, although “full load of our firepower will be unleashed,” they somehow do not anticipate any casualties. They do, however, expect the civil war to “trigger requests” for intervention from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) which Israel must only agree to after extreme reluctance.

The document says Israel will also play an important role by creating “covert false flag operations” as the conflict progresses. Perhaps these operations would include chemical attacks similar to the chemical attacks on civilians in Syria or even direct attacks on Lebanese or Israeli civilians to blame on Hezbollah and justify international intervention.

The document admits that the United States and Israel will need an unprecedented amount of credibility to pull this off and also admits that the Lebanese Army may be an obstacle, likely due to the Army’s diverse makeup. As a legitimate political party with members throughout all aspects of Lebanese society, Hezbollah already has members and allies throughout the ISF as well as the Army.

https://geopoliticsalert.com/civil-war-lebanon-false-flag

Notable: DJ Trump: Paul Ryan Blocked Subpoenas of Democrats

BAKER NOTABLE

Exclusive — President Donald Trump: Paul Ryan Blocked Subpoenas of Democrats

President Donald Trump is not happy that former House Speaker Paul Ryan blocked subpoenas of people and entities Trump thinks the House GOP should have been investigating during the first two years of his administration.

Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive lengthy Oval Office interview that Ryan blocked issuance of subpoenas to people he thinks should have been investigated on the political left, and now that the Republicans no longer have the majority in the House, people Trump says Ryan protected may have gotten away with whatever they did that warranted investigation.

Trump said that House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and his predecessor and fellow conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) wanted to be tougher with the left, but that Ryan would not let them.

“Paul Ryan wouldn’t give the right to have any subpoenas,” Trump told Breitbart News. “Okay? Now in all fairness, Meadows and Jordan and all these guys, they wanted to go tougher, but they weren’t allowed to by leadership.”

Trump’s comments came in a wider part of the conversation about how the left is more “vicious” than the right—and that the left in American politics plays “cuter and tougher.”

“So here’s the thing—it’s so terrible what’s happening,” Trump said when asked by Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House about his anticipated executive order on campus free speech. “You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad. But the left plays it cuter and tougher. Like with all the nonsense that they do in Congress … with all this invest[igations]—that’s all they want to do is –you know, they do things that are nasty. Republicans never played this.”

Trump’s relationship with Ryan during Ryan’s tenure was fraught with peril from the get-go. Ryan only hesitantly backed Trump’s 2016 campaign in 2016 once Trump won the GOP nomination, but then backed off from supporting Trump after the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape. Ryan ditched on a campaign event he had scheduled with Trump that weekend, and the following week held a conference call with House GOP members in early October 2016 in which he told members it would be acceptable to him if they abandoned the GOP nominee for president just weeks before the 2016 election.

“I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future,” Ryan said on the private call, audio of which was obtained by Breitbart News and published in early 2017.

Ryan followed through on that and never campaigned with Trump. When Breitbart News published this audio in the spring of 2017, his then-spokesman Brendan Buck claimed that “a lot has happened since then” and argued that Ryan was working with Trump on the president’s agenda in the first couple years of his administration.

More at https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/13/exclusive-president-donald-trump-paul-ryan-blocked-subpoenas-of-democrats/

Notable: Please pray for Landen–the little boy thrown off the balcony

PRAYERS FOR THIS POOR BOY, ANONS

GOD BLESS HIM AND HIS FAMILY

FUCKING MONSTER.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6920195/Wellwishers-donate-315k-hours-five-year-old-boy-thrown-Mall-America-balcony.html

https://www.gofundme.com/Landonprayers

Notable: Giuliani: Assange Arrest May Expose Ukraine Plot to Frame Russia, Trump

Giuliani: Assange Arrest May Expose Ukraine Plot to Frame Russia, Trump

President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a new interview that the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could uncover details of a Ukrainian plot against Trump and Russia.

"Maybe it will shed light on the plot to create an investigation of President Trump based on a false charge of conspiracy with the Russians to affect the 2016 elections. Keep your eye on Ukraine," Giuliani told the Washington Examiner.

"It's possible with all his sources he might know or have information of how it all started."

Giuliani's remarks came one day after Assange was arrested following his ouster from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had been holed up since 2012. He was indicted on charges that he helped Chelsea Manning steal hundreds of thousands of classified documents from U.S. government computers.

Giuliani told the Examiner he thinks Assange might have information that would "show who invented [the] false story that [Trump] colluded with Russians."

Some have alleged that Assange worked with the Russians to obtain stolen emails and documents from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign. Assange, however, claims Russia was not his source.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rudy-giuliani-julian-assange/2019/04/12/id/911513/

Notable: Brussels is first major city to half 5G due to health concerns

BAKER NOTABLE

Brussels Becomes First Major City to Halt 5G Due to Health Effects – Collective Evolution

The Facts:

A Belgian government minister has announced that Brussels is halting its 5G plans due to health effects.

Reflect On:

Should we agree to be guinea pigs on technology that has not been safety tested?

Great news. A Belgian government minister has announced that Brussels is halting its 5G plans due to health effects.

The statement was made by Céline Fremault, the Minister of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Housing, Quality of Life, Environment and Energy. From an interview last Friday, with L’Echo:

“I cannot welcome such technology if the radiation standards, which must protect the citizen, are not respected, 5G or not. The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit. We cannot leave anything to doubt.”

– Céline Fremault, Minister of the Government (Brussels-Captial Region), responsible for Housing, Quality of Life, Environment and Energy

Ms. Fremault accurately identified that a 5G pilot project is not compatible with Belgian radiation safety standards (9 V/m, or 95 mW/m2 according to this online converter), and stated that she does not intend to make an exception. (In the Building Biology guidelines, the threshold for extreme concern is 1 mW/m2. However, many government agencies still only consider thermal effects, instead of the cumulative body of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies.)

Perhaps with Brussels heading up the European Union, and with one of the two major 5G appeals being addressed to the EU, officials there are better informed and motivated to protect themselves.

May support increase for Ms. Fremault and all officials who are hearing the call to sanity and prioritizing the people over the technocratic oligarchy.

2-MINUTE ACTION: To send a brief note of support to Ms. Fremault, go here; and to Brussels city councilors, go here. Encourage them of the importance to keep this ban permanent, despite industry’s forthcoming pressure.

The 5G Situation in Summary

More at https://www.collective-evolution.com/2019/04/02/brussels-becomes-first-major-city-to-halt-5g-due-to-health-effects/

Notable: >>6172611 Two dead and others missing from tornado in Monroe Co, Mississippi

https://twitter.com/PorterMedium/status/1117321144972009472

Notable: S Korean clubs ("gangnam") linked to sex crimes

https://in.reuters.com/article/southkorea-kpop-scandal/gangnam-style-sex-crime-k-pop-scandals-uncover-dark-side-of-seouls-flashiest-district-idINKCN1RQ03E

Notable: Pressure on US dams may result in the destruction of entire towns if flooding is severe

A “perfect storm” of events is now building toward a cascading collapse of mammoth U.S. dams that will displace millions and destroy entire towns

Dams do their job every day with little fanfare, but when one breaks, the results can be devastating. Imagine entire towns being completely washed away and millions of people losing everything they own and being displaced. It sounds like something out of a big-budget Hollywood doomsday film, but for the millions of people who live near dams, the danger is all too real. In fact, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has forecast that two thirds of the 48 contiguous states will be facing a heightened flood risk until May. They predict that there could be “unprecedented” levels of flooding throughout the nation that will put 200 million people in danger. Some of the areas identified as being at the greatest risk include communities near the Mississippi River, where rain and snow levels have been as much as 200 percent above normal, along with the Great Lakes, the Ohio river basin, and the Tennessee river basin. NOAA National Water Center Director Ed Clark commented: “The extensive flooding we’ve seen in the past two weeks will continue through May and become more dire and may be exacerbated in the coming weeks as the water flows downstream.” A combination of rapid snow melt and heavy rainfall inundating the Midwest and plains is fueling the floods, with torrents of rainfall failing to penetrate frozen ground, forcing water to swell rivers and break their banks. As the spring rains continue and snow melts, the flood threat will only be exacerbated. Flooding has already caused almost $1.5 billion worth of damage in Nebraska, leaving four people dead and one missing. It has damaged hundreds of Midwestern homes so far, and is also being blamed for a handful of deaths in Nebraska and Idaho. Flooding has caused trains to be stopped in Missouri, preventing people and goods from reaching their destinations, and it’s also affecting agriculture significantly, threatening grain stockpiles and killing livestock as tens of thousands of acres get absolutely inundated. Coastal areas are also being hit by flooding, with NOAA predicting that both the east and west coasts of the nation will experience a greater chance than normal of spring flooding due to high tides.

Nation’s dams not ready to handle all this flooding

Unfortunately, many of America’s dams just aren’t up to the task of handling epic rainfall. Look at what happened with the Oroville Dam in California, which nearly blew out after damage from record-setting rains, threatening to propel a 30-foot wall of water toward Sacramento and everything in its path. The state ultimately had to evacuate 188,000 people in three counties. Meanwhile, the Fort Peck Dam in Montana is also causing concerns as the upcoming snow melt is coinciding with the Yellowstone Caldera’s seismic activity.

In their Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers said that 15,500 American dams have high-hazard potential, which means that if they fail, it could lead to a catastrophic loss of life. A further 11,882 dams have a “significant hazard potential,” which means a failure might not necessarily cause massive deaths but could cause significant financial losses. It’s pretty scary to think of how easily a dam can break and how quickly that could wreak massive amounts of havoc and destruction. And what happens when this kind of flooding hits a nuclear reactor? Aging infrastructure and unprecedented rain mean we could be hit by a disaster of epic proportions.

https://www.dcclothesline.com/2019/04/12/a-perfect-storm-of-events-is-now-building-toward-a-cascading-collapse-of-mammoth-u-s-dams-that-will-displace-millions-and-destroy-entire-towns/

Notable: "Big day": DJT & anon, April 17th & RBG "coming soon"

>>6172232

>>6172232

Hes talking about replacing RBG. "Good people in the hunt " are the replacements for the job….hence, "good luck".

Notable: >>6172303, >>6172325 Lukla plane crash (world's most dangerous airport)

Nepali Times

‏Cuenta verificada @NepaliTimes

Lukla Plane Collision Kills 3

Summit Air plane ploughs into helicopter on Nepali New Year.

Full report with updates here:

#Nepal #aviation #Lukla

https://twitter.com/NepaliTimes/status/1117310674164568064

Notable: Haitian orphanage founder arrested in Dom. Republic

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/haitian-orphanage-founder-arrested-dominican-republic-62381915

Notable: Draghi worried about Fed's "independence"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-ecb/ecbs-draghi-worried-about-feds-independence-idUSKCN1RP0K9

Notable: >>6172251, >>6172269 Q Drop #1 & HRC, "E" for Evergreen, 8 dots/4 dots, "fleeing"

ITS HABBENING - POTUS TWEET

Q only posts the word "fleeing" ONCE…..

Q post 1

Q post 1

Q post 1

Screen shot and spread it around

Notable: >>6172117 SC ACT II - twatter decode of a DJT from tonight

https://twitter.com/outlawjw/status/1117283581523525632

Notable: The Good Fight S3 ep3 spoopy caps

difficult to post this file due to size…

>>6170918 (lb)

>>6171578

re: The Good Fight twitter post

Season 3 Episode 3 (not episode 5 like listed in notables)

Not finished watching the whole thing, but I just found the part in the episode the screenshot was taken from.

The character Diane was on the phone with another character Valerie, she quotes:

"Valerie, hey. It's Diane. I have thought about how to attack the troll farm.

The resistance needs to use their techniques against them.

It's like Pizzagate.

Trump lives by fake news, he dies by fake news.

Let's help them die."

The context was that she was trying to help destroy a Trump-controlled troll farm, initiated when Trump started losing approval rating points.

During the phone call with Valerie, the scene cuts to 2 NSA agents listening in on her conversation. In that convo, she apparently said 5 'red' 'target words' in one sentence.

The one NSA agent had a list pinned to his cubicle wall of all the target words, listed by color in columns.

The columns are labeled red, orange, and yellow. This apparently is a severity list, where red words are the worst.

The NSA agent points to the list right below the words I don't care to repeat words on the list.

The NSA guys go "That is domestic terrorism BINGO"

The episode continues.

Regardless of the context here, the list was still aired for 2 seconds.

I can't attach my 45 second clip I took with my phone (over 100mb)

3 screenshots attached

>>6171578

Notable: POTUS masters tweet and Q drop 1171 - Big Day Good Luck common makers

repost for >>6171156 lb

Notable: >>6171858, >>6171875 Skolnick digs

>Sherman H. Skolnick

This guy was /qresearch/ before it existed, in the 1960s-2000s

>Holohoax denying Jew

>Anti-Catholic

>Jesuits/Vatican are in on it

>CIA is in on it

>British nobility is in on it

>Bushes are in on it

>Clintons are in on it

>Federal Reserve is in on it

>Rockefellers are in on it

>Rothschilds are in on it

>Morgans are in on it

>JFK Assassination

>JFK Jr Murder

>Titanic connection

>OK City bombing connection

>TWA 800 connection

>Iraq connection

>Iran connection

>Skull & Bones

>satanic cults

>pedophiles in high places

>Fall of Romanovs/Russia

>Bin Laden

>WWI

>WWII/Hitler

>Bilderberg

>vote fraud

>Obama & Gang

>more and more and more…

Conveniently died of a heart attack in 2006.

We have more than we know… because everything is out there waiting to be parsed together?

Notable: Cali Dept of Water Resources (DWR) folks hiding something at Oroville Dam Spillway?

Cali Dept of Water Resources (DWR) folks hiding something at Oroville Dam Spillway?

- New spillway tested at very low flow rate (25k cfs)

- Spillway webcams out of service

- Lake level reporting "Inaccurate" data

Top 50' of lake is supposed to be reserved for flood control (current lake level approx 38' below emergency spillway level & still rising)

… and no water being let out of the new spillway

DWR has a long history of "lack of candor" and "systemic failure due to poor management decisions" … they haven't earned the right to be trusted

IMO… Probably nothing (major), but I would not be the least bit surprised if they are trying to make some type of repairs on the spillway and that's why the water is not flowing down the chute

https://cdec.water.ca.gov/dynamicapp/QueryF?s=ORO&d=12-Apr-2019+20:32&span=12hours

Notable: >>6171632, >>6171589, >>6171540 Ukraine’s top prosecutor says he’s found collusion

@SternfanFL

Ukraine’s top prosecutor says he’s found collusion, launches probe into alleged Hillary 2016 election meddling

https://twitter.com/SternfanFL/status/1117271127875883008

Notable: Full screen caps of all of qanon.pub as of today, 4/13/19

Reposting since Q Graphics in EST haven't been updated since May 2018

______

Full screen caps of all of qanon.pub as of today, 4/13/19

Link to (1) 275-pg pdf document, 545.6 mb: https://mega.nz/#!eUFjWawY!0ZwU8TgC7ZiYAi9jtUuiqHtT8bk9LDBUUMcWVZruzNw

Link to folder of (31) separate png files, each 15-24 mb: https://mega.nz/#F!HINRFIRa!kXj1aGhavN5fKYDw7QEYtw

Pic(s) related is what they look like.

If this is useful, I can screencap monthly and post updated links.

If you'd prefer to do this yourself, this is the screen capture chrome extension I used, though I'm sure there are others: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-capture/fdpohaocaechififmbbbbbknoalclacl?hl=en

You have to stay on the page and make sure your display doesn't sleep - it took a couple hours.

I also just noticed you can change the format size of pdf's. The pdf above is US letter size - next time I will probably use legal size.

==Archive Offline==

Notable: How Kenya gave Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks its first major global scoop

How Kenya gave Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks its first major global scoop

https://qz.com/africa/1594656/the-kenyan-roots-of-julian-assanges-wikileaks/

Notable: CBS Busted By Mom For Using Image Of Her Vaccine-Injured Child To Falsely Claim Measles Caused Injuries

CBS Busted By Mom For Using Image Of Her Vaccine-Injured Child To Falsely Claim Measles Caused Injuries

For months now, the Free Thought Project has been reporting on the hype and utter hysteria being pushed by the government and the media alike in regards to the 2019 measles situation. It started in January as mainstream media and social media giants began begging for the government to silence those who advocate for vaccine safety and it came to a head on Tuesday as New York began force vaccinating citizens and charging those who resisted it with a crime. Highlighting the nonsensical reaction by the mainstream to the non-epidemic of measles in the United States, a CBS affiliate out of Texas ran a story with an image of child—claiming that child had the measles. In reality, however, the child featured in their image was injured from the vaccines meant to prevent measles.

Dawn Neufeld caught the media company using the image of her son and was furious. “So @cbsdfw decided to use my kid as the poster child for the measles outbreak. We did not grant permission of any kind for its use. But the irony… Will doesn’t have measles in this picture; this is the reaction he had to taking the ‘safe’ MMR shot. We’re not happy about this… at all,” she wrote on Facebook Tuesday.

Neufeld is an outspoken advocate for safe vaccines. Despite attempts to smear her as an “antivaxxer,” Neufeld has merely advocated for safe vaccines and notes that she still vaccinates her children. Because of Neufeld’s large social media following, CBS was inundated with angry comments on how “deceitful” and “negligent” the decision to use her son’s photo was—especially considering the fact that she blames vaccines for her son’s autism. The image of her son was posted to the news website with the caption, claiming “a baby infected by measles sits on his mother’s lap.” But that baby did not have measles and was instead covered in red soars due to an adverse reaction to the very vaccine given to prevent measles. Only after receiving threats of a lawsuit and an onslaught of negative comments and demands for them to take it down did CBS finally remove the image and issue a retraction.

This incident illustrates the deceptive spin used by mainstream media to sell fear over the measles non-epidemic. An image of a child was used to incite fear over a measles outbreak and push the very vaccine which injured the child. This fear and hysteria is now manifesting into an actual usurpation of our right to informed consent and the lapdog media is reporting it without question. And as the use of this image shows, while they unquestioningly report on the fact that Americans are being force-vaccinated against their will, they’re doing so deceptively. Even if it was an honest mistake, the case is made to show the lack of credibility these institutions have when calling for the silencing of those who do nothing other than question the safety of vaccines. As Amazon purges books and films on vaccine information and as politicians literally beg for pro-safe vaccine folks to be silenced, examples like this prove that those who wish to control the flow of information and take away your right to ask questions, are not always right—a telling notion indeed.

https://freedomoutpost.com/cbs-busted-by-mom-for-using-image-of-her-vaccine-injured-child-to-falsely-claim-measles-caused-injuries/

Notable: >>6170959 Tegan Shohet wrote the episode in question, and Jim McKay directed it.

>>6169920, >>6169939, >>6170091, >>6170175, >>6170255, >>6170408 CBS Calling for Trump's assassination subliminally (ALL LB)

sauces:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5853176/fullcredits

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9598784/?ref_=ttep_ep_cur

Tegan Shohet wrote the episode in question. Jim McKay directed it.

Series Directed by

Brooke Kennedy … (5 episodes, 2017-2019)

Jim McKay … (5 episodes, 2017-2019)

Robert King … (3 episodes, 2017-2019)

Ron Underwood … (3 episodes, 2017-2018)

Michael Zinberg … (2 episodes, 2017-2018)

Frederick E.O. Toye … (2 episodes, 2018-2019)

Allan Arkush … (1 episode, 2017)

Marta Cunningham … (1 episode, 2017)

So Yong Kim … (1 episode, 2017)

Alex Zakrzewski … (1 episode, 2017)

Clark Johnson … (1 episode, 2018)

Kevin Rodney Sullivan … (1 episode, 2018)

James Whitmore Jr. … (1 episode, 2018)

Series Writing Credits

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Michelle King … (created by) (24 episodes, 2017-2019)

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Phil Alden Robinson … (created by) (24 episodes, 2017-2019)

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Joey Hartstone … (10 episodes, 2017-2018)

William M. Finkelstein … (5 episodes, 2017-2019)

Jacquelyn Reingold … (3 episodes, 2018-2019)

Jonathan Tolins … (3 episodes, 2018-2019)

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Ryan Pedersen … (1 episode, 2017)

Joey Scavuzzo … (1 episode, 2017)

Pray for the continued safety of our wonderful POTUS

Notable: >>6170914, >>6171293, >>6171507 Anons on the Titanic and Lincoln

>>6170748

Agree, it was about both

107th day of year is tomorrow

107th anniversary of Titanic sinking

Tomorrow is the 14th of April - on the 107th year - and is actually also Sunday - the same Day of the week as that year.

There was a John Podesta on the Titanic

and….

107=17

April Showers

Watch the water

Flynn banner change on twatter

Ships Sink

Just sharing my thoughts on [A]pril

QPost 107

QClock…….

Notable: Communist Chinese government announces bounty rewards for informants who identify Christians to be “disappeared” by the regime

Communist Chinese government announces bounty rewards for informants who identify Christians to be “disappeared” by the regime

Too many Americans forget this, but in Communist China where most of our consumer products are manufactured these days, it’s illegal to be a Christian. And the Communist Chinese government is now offering cash rewards to anyone who snitches on Chinese Christians who lead so-called “house churches,” which operate under the radar of the oppressive Communist Chinese regime.

According to reports, the Guangzhou Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs has announced that it will pay the yen equivalent of $1,500 U.S. – an amount that’s roughly equal to an average two-month income in China – to anyone who successfully leads authorities to Christian house churches, which the Chinese government sees as a constant threat.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who’s repeatedly met with President Donald Trump to discuss issues related mostly to trade, is said to be going after both Christian and Muslims “with great zeal,” as he sees the views of these two religions as conflicting with the goals of China’s communist government.

President Jinping apparently sees the spread of both Christianity and Islam in his country as an “infiltration” that threatens to undermine his own power – which indeed it does, seeing as how Big Government functions as a religion in and of itself.

https://newstarget.com/2019-04-13-communist-chinese-government-announces-bounty-rewards-for-informants-who-identify-christians.html

Notable: The Brexit Party: “UKIP but without the far-right”, claims Legend Nigel Farage

Notables.

Our boy Nigel is back in the game!

The Brexit Party: “UKIP but without the far-right”, claims Legend Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the new Brexit Party, says his anti-EU group will mirror UKIP on policies, but when it comes to personnel there will be a “vast difference,” with no far-right faction, RT.com reports.

The former UKIP leader launches his new party in Coventry on Friday in preparation for fighting European elections that the UK may be forced to participate in on May 23, if a Brexit deal cannot be passed by British lawmakers.

Speaking on BBC 4’s Today program, Farage, who quit UKIP in December due to what he saw as leader, Gerard Batten’s “obsession” with former head of the EDL, Tommy Robinson, claims his Brexit Party will not have such far-right individuals.

“UKIP did struggle to get enough good people into it but unfortunately what it’s chosen to do is allow the far right to join it and effectively take it over and I’m afraid the brand is now tarnished.”

Farage is hoping to attract support from disgruntled pro-Brexit Tories, unhappy with Prime Minister Theresa May delaying the UK’s exit from the European Union.

The hardline Brexiteer also revealed that his party would not be taking donations from Aaron Banks, the millionaire who helped to bankroll UKIP, suggesting the businessman wants to stay out of the spotlight when it comes to political donations.

The UK Parliament is currently in recess until April 23, giving Farage’s Brexit Party the opportunity to grab the media and public’s attention, and take advantage of the fact that the issue of Brexit is dominating political discourse in Britain.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/04/the-brexit-party-ukip-but-without-the-far-right-claims-nigel-farage-2/

Notable: Why the Queen of England Pretends to be a Christian

>>6170602

BAKER,

Freemasonry and the British Monarchy

Why the Queen of England Pretends to be a Christian

https://www.crossroad.to/articles2/2012/James/freemasonry-queen.htm

Notable: Youtube blatantly force-feeding MSM garbage

Oh GOOG, you show you're pooched.

DESPERATELY PUSHING FAKE NEWS ON THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

PANIC PANIC PANIC

Notable: >>6167166, >>6167194 @DeptofDefense: Wait for it…💥!

Wait for it…💥!

twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1117185694982713350

Notable: >>6167115, >>6167299 @NSAGov Q of Clubs Tweet, JA, Left Eye [Marker]?

>>6167071

>>6167093

>>6167115

>>6167144

>>6167299

>>6167115

Notable: Pelosi Fumes Over Plan to Release Immigrant Detainees in Sanctuary Cities (Epoch)

Pelosi Fumes Over Plan to Release Immigrant Detainees in Sanctuary Cities

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pelosi-fumes-over-plan-to-release-immigrant-detainees-in-sanctuary-cities_2878275.html

Notable: Matt Cohler, Silicon Valley dig

>>6167122

How does this Faggot fit in? kek

The King Midas of Silicon Valley: How a Yale graduate, 42, who is set to make $11BILLION when Uber goes public, has already helped launch Facebook, Instagram, Tinder and LinkedIn

Matt Cohler is Uber's largest shareholder with 11 per cent of the company

He is already behind some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley

Worked with Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Uber, Zendesk, and Tinder

Silicon Valley success started with a management consultant role in China

He would go on to meet former PayPal executive Reid Hoffman after leaving Yale

Cohler became Hoffman's protégé, helping to launch his new start-up, LinkedIn

It was there, in the summer of 2004, he would meet Mark Zuckerberg

He joined Facebook in 2005, the seventh full-time employee and became vice president of product management before leaving in 2008 to go to Benchmark

The New Yorker now lives with wife Pia Oien Cohler in San Francisco

They live a charmed life after getting engaged in 2015 and married a year later

In 2016 he beat the likes of Beyonce, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Floyd Mayweather to be named the 23rd richest entrepreneur under 40 in America

He made the Forbes The Midas List of top tech Investors in 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6918783/The-Yale-graduate-42-set-make-11-BILLION-day-Uber-IPOs.html

Notable: >>6167305 "It's about to BREAK." Q post vs Flynn Twitter banner change

>>6166055 /PB

Did someone just share a photo with breaking waves?

Stay frosty, Patriots.

Notable: German Parents Fined for Not Sending Son on Mosque Trip (Breitbart)

German Parents Fined for Not Sending Son on Mosque Trip

The parents of a young boy have received a fine from a German court after they prevented their child from going to school to avoid a trip to a local mosque.

A district court Northern Germany fined the pair in July of last year but the parents of the child attempted to appeal the court ruling, only to have their appeal rejected by the Higher Regional Court in Schleswig this week, Hamburger Morgenpost reports.

The incident dates back to June of 2016 when the parents refused to let their son attend school for the day because the school had organised a field trip to the Rendsburg Mosque. The court imposed a fine of 50 euros due to the fact the parents had forced their child to miss several lessons for the day, rather than just pull him out of the field trip to the mosque.

Trips to local mosques have been a source of controversy in the United Kingdom, as well, as among some parents have refused to grant permission for their children to attend such visits. In Cornwall, a school reacted to parents pulling their children out of a trip in 2015 by publicly humiliating their children, singling them out in front of other pupils by forcing them to answer questions as to why they could not attend the mosque. Later that year, governors of a rural school in Cornwall reacted to concerned parents by simply making mosque trips mandatory for all pupils.

In 2017, Staffordshire’s Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) also wrote a document in reaction to parents pulling their children out of mosque visits claiming that “Islamophobia” may have been behind the trend. “While objections are raised about visits to a number of places of worship, they are most frequently about visits to mosques, which raises the bigger issue of Islamaphobia [sic] and how this can be addressed,” they said. Earlier this year it was revealed that parents in Essex have gone even further, and have not only stopped their children visiting mosques but have also removed them from Religious Education lessons on Islam.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/13/german-parents-fined-for-not-sending-son-on-mosque-trip/

Notable: NXIM, Kieth Raniere dig (Frank Report)

Raniere trying to get Mexican witnesses to testify — hopes to have Jane Doe #2 testify she was not 15 when nude photos were taken

Certain Mexican Nxivm members are getting “subpoenas” to appear as witnesses for the Nxivm trial. Sources tell me this is part of a scheme by the Keith Raniere defense team to get Mexican women to “safely” testify for Raniere.

Neither the US Government nor Raniere has jurisdiction to subpoena [or legally require as a subpoena does] anyone in Mexico to come to the US.

The subpoenas are, in effect, mere pieces of paper with no legal force.

They are, however, being served on Mexican women – and an attorney close to the case told Frank Report that this is a step Raniere is taking in order to try to persuade the trial judge (US District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis) to grant his request to have Mexican witnesses for the defense testify via closed-circuit TV, as opposed to their coming to the USA and testifying in person.

Raniere’s argument is that the Mexican women want to testify in support of their Vanguard but are afraid that if they come to the US, the DOJ will arrest them and charge them with Nxivm-related crimes.

Raniere has asked the DOJ to guarantee “safe passage” from the US and back to Mexico for these witnesses since he argues it would be unfair to subject them to possible arrest if they appear for the defense.

In some cases, special clearance from Homeland Security is necessary to get them into the USA – since they do not possess visas.

If the judge and the DOJ do not agree to “safe passage”, Raniere is asking the judge to allow the Mexican women to testify on closed-circuit TV where they could be examined by the defense and cross-examined by the government.

The “subpoenas” are mere show after all – but what Raniere can say – if the Mexican women decline to appear – is that he tried to get “crucial” witness to testify but the government held a blatant threat over their heads – and refused to assure them that, if they came forward and testified, they won’t themselves end up being indicted – as a punitive measure for supporting Raniere.

Raniere suggests witness intimidation on the part of the government.

It might be an issue he can use on appeal if the judge does not grant his request to either compel the prosecution to grant temporary immunity and “safe passage” for Raniere’s Mexican witnesses – or allow them to testify on closed-circuit TV – as they remain outside the jurisdiction of the US DOJ – if he loses the case.

The Mexicans could be indicted anyway in the US, but since they are Mexican citizens and living in Mexico, it is not as cut and dried concerning extradition to the US as it would be for the extradition of a US citizen living in Mexico. [Ask Raniere about that.]

https://frankreport.com/2019/04/13/raniere-trying-to-get-mexican-witnesses-to-testify-hopes-to-have-jane-doe-2-testify-she-was-not-15-when-nude-photos-were-taken/

Notable: Pope Francis: Give up your organs

Pope Francis Urges Promotion of Organ Donation ‘Culture’

ROME — Pope Francis addressed organ donation Saturday morning, urging Catholics to promote this practice as “an offering to the Lord.” Jesus “has identified himself with those who suffer because of illness, traffic accidents, or work accidents,” the pope said, and, therefore, it “is good for Jesus’ disciples to offer their organs, within legal and moral bounds, because it is a gift made to the suffering Lord, who said that everything we do to a brother in need we do to Him.”

Speaking in the Vatican to members of the Italian Association for the Donation of Organs, Tissues and Cells (AIDO), Francis said it is “important to promote a culture of donation,” favoring “the offering of a part of the body, without disproportionate risks or consequences, as a living donation, and all the organs after a person’s death.” While praising organ donation as an act of “love and altruism,” the pontiff, nonetheless, cautioned against the sale of human organs, which would produce a “commodification of the body or its parts,” which is “contrary to human dignity.”

Citing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Francis said that organ donation after death “is a noble and meritorious act and is to be encouraged as a [sic] expression of generous solidarity.” “It is not morally acceptable if the donor or his proxy has not given explicit consent,” the Catechism continues. “Moreover, it is not morally admissible to bring about the disabling mutilation or death of a human being, even in order to delay the death of other persons.” For those who do not have a religious faith, Francis said, the donation of organs is a gesture towards needy brothers and sisters, which should be performed “on the basis of an ideal of disinterested human solidarity.” The generous act of donation serves as a counterweight to contemporary threats against life, “such as the case of abortion and euthanasia,” he said, and help people understand that “life is a something sacred.”

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/04/13/pope-francis-urges-promotion-organ-donation-culture/

Notable: Mnuchin says hopes U.S.-China trade talks nearing 'final round'

Mnuchin says hopes U.S.-China trade talks nearing 'final round'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday a U.S.-China trade agreement would go “way beyond” previous efforts to open China’s markets to U.S. companies and hoped that the two sides were “close to the final round” of negotiations.

Mnuchin, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings, said that he and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer would hold two calls next week with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He. The officials also were discussing whether more in-person meetings were necessary to conclude an agreement.

“I think we’re hopeful that we’re getting close to the final round of concluding issues,” Mnuchin said.

Beijing and Washington are seeking a deal to end a bitter trade war marked by tit-for-tat tariffs that have cost the world’s two largest economies billions of dollars, disrupted supply chains and rattled financial markets.

Among the issues under discussion are U.S. demands that China open more sectors of its economy to foreign and U.S. firms. Asked whether such an opening would go beyond what was contemplated in the 2016 Bilateral Investment Treaty negotiations, he replied:

“We are making progress, I want to be careful. This is not a public negotiation … this is a very, very detailed agreement covering issues that have never been dealt with before,” Mnuchin said. “This is way beyond anything that looked like a bilateral investment treaty.

The BIT talks, pursued by former President Barack Obama’s administration, stalled as China refused to satisfy U.S. demands to open significant sectors of its economy to foreign investment. The talks were not taken up by the Trump administration, which pursued tariffs on Chinese goods instead, leading to the current talks.

Mnuchin called the agreement under negotiation “the most significant change in the trading relationship in 40 years,” adding that it would have “real enforcement on both sides.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank-mnuchin-idUSKCN1RP0OC

Notable: Ex-Venezuelan general detained in Spain on US warrant (Breitbart)

Ex-Venezuelan general detained in Spain on US warrant

Madrid (AFP) – Former Venezuelan general Hugo Carvajal, head of military intelligence under Hugo Chavez, was held in temporary detention Saturday while Spain waits for a formal US extradition request on charges of cocaine trafficking, judicial sources said.

Carvajal, dubbed “El Pollo” (The Chicken), was taken into custody Friday at his son’s home in Madrid by Spanish police. He made headlines recently by voicing support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.

A judge at a Spainish federal court decided to place Carvajal in provisional detention, while the United States files a “formal extradition request” to judicial authorities, the sources said. The former army general “denied having links to drug trafficking and the FARC” guerrilla group in Colombia, they added. He refused to be handed over to US officials and argued that he now has family ties to Spain.

In a statement, the US Justice Department said if convicted, Carvajal faced a sentence of between 10 years to life in prison over the charges of conspiracy to import more than five tonnes of cocaine into the United States. “No matter the rank or level of influence of an individual, we will continue to pursue and prosecute those who bring deadly drugs into this country in a US court of law,” said prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Carvajal has long been sought by US Treasury officials who suspect him of providing support to drug trafficking by FARC guerrillas.

In May 2013, a Florida court accused him of having worked for Colombian drug traffickers from 2004 to 2010. In 2014, Carvajal was arrested on the Dutch island of Aruba where he was Venezuela’s consul, but he fled back to Venezuela after claiming diplomatic immunity. He was the highest-ranking army official to declare his support for Guaido, saying that the six-year Nicolas Maduro presidency had been a disaster. On February 21, he posted a video on Twitter in which he told army officers: “How it all ends will depend on you my brothers in arms” and urging them to stand “on the right side of history.” Maduro then ousted Carvajal and the former military man was accused of “acts of treason.”

https://www.breitbart.com/news/ex-venezuelan-general-detained-in-spain-on-us-warrant/

Notable: Planefag spots HOQK callsign

HOQK42

T-6 with a Q erroneously? in it's callsign.

Notable: Politico fake news about Trump's visit to Mt. Vernon

Nolte: Politico Caught Spreading Fake News About Trump’s Mount Vernon Visit

The far-left and increasingly irrelevant Politico has been caught spreading fake news about President Trump’s visit to Mount Vernon.

Last April, along with French President Emmanuel Macron and the respective first ladies, the president visited Mount Vernon, the famous home of George and Martha Washington. On Wednesday, using the usual-usual “unnamed sources” (which means Trump haters making up shit Resistance reporters want to hear), Politico (feel free to Google the original story — I’m done linking fake news) painted a picture of a “truly bizarre” and ignorant Trump making a fool of himself during the tour.

“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said of Washington’s estate, according to three Politico “sources.”

Here are some other bullet points:

“The Macrons, [tour guide] Bradburn has told several people, were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president.”

“Trump asked whether Washington was ‘really rich,’ according to a second person familiar with the visit.”

“While quickly bored by Washington’s home, Trump has been eager to show off his own residence to guests, and has learned some White House history in the process.”

And like most Politico pieces, this one confuses length with depth and insight. There is just one itsy-bitsy problem… None of what Politico reported is true… I know you find it surprising that the very same corporate media who spread the… Russia Collusion Hoax, Covington Hoax, Kavanaugh Hoax, George Zimmerman Hoax, Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax. …would now spread a hoax about Trump’s visit to Mount Vernon, but the Politico report is 100 percent fake news, and we know this because the horse’s mouth is so appalled, it released a statement.

As Townhall’s Matt Vespa first reported, Mount Vernon is so outraged by Politico‘s fake news, it released a damning (and unprecedented) statement repudiating the entire report [emphasis added]: Mount Vernon has a firm, long-standing policy of not commenting on the details of high-profile visits to the home of George Washington. However, we believe in the importance of ensuring that reports about events that take place at Mount Vernon are accurate. As such, we are concerned that the third-party accounts of the Trump-Macron visit released by several media outlets today do not correctly reflect the events that transpired nearly a year ago. Mount Vernon President Doug Bradburn and Regent Sarah Coulson escorted the presidents and first ladies on a tour of the Mansion on April 23, 2018. During the tour, all parties were interested and engaged in the story of George Washington and his beloved home. Conversations touched on topics like business dealings, real estate, and related matters that were of relevance and interest to the touring parties, and questions were asked by both leaders with curiosity and respect. Comments pulled from sources who were not present for the tour do not properly convey the tone and context in which they were delivered.

Politico has not broken a consequential story in years. In fact, this Mount Vernon Hoax is the most attention that garbage fire has attracted in a long, long time … and it was all lies. And I knew the moment I read the story it was all lies, but it just wasn’t worth commenting on because everyone now knows the media are addicted to fabricating this crap while hiding behind their phony sources, so why call even more attention to it? And how do we know Politico‘s sources are phony? Because a media who actually cared about things like truth, accuracy, and integrity would name the sources who burn them.

But our media never do that because our media aren’t interested in reporting the truth. It’s the same with Jake Tapper’s “unnamed source” story about Trump promising a pardon to the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner if he violates our immigration laws. It’s all lies, all fabricated. We know that because CNN and Tapper spent two years lying to us, serially hoaxing us about Russia collusion, George Zimmerman, “hands up, don’t shoot,” the Covington High School boys, and Brett Kavanaugh. Everything the media reports is a lie, a deliberate lie… And if Politico is willing to lie about the small stuff, like a year-old Mount Vernon visit, imagine the lies Politico is willing to tell about things that actually matter.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/13/politico-caught-spreading-fake-news-trumps-mount-vernon-visit/

Notable: WTF? Absurd chaos at Walmart in Wisconsin

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chaos-walmart-woman-karate-son-exposes-dog-steals-food

Notable: Ecuador Hacked After Julian Assange Arrest (ZeroHedge)

Ecuador Hacked After Julian Assange Arrest

Two days after the Thursday arrest of Julian Assange at Ecuador's London embassy, several government websites were hacked; including Ecuador's official website, the Central Bank of Ecuador, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ecuadorian Assembly in the UK, according to Gateway Pundit's Cassandra Fairbanks, who was in London last week and documented the run-up to Assange's arrest. Concurrent with the breach, a hacking group operating under the name "AL1NE3737" released a database containing the full names and passwords for what appear to be 728 Ecuadorian government employees.

Furthermore, Ecuador's sites were hit with Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. According to DefCon Lab. Among those involved in these attacks stand out from the groups / hacker DeathLaw , 5UB5, Cyb3r C0nven Security and Al1ne ( Pryzraky ). DoS actions has consistently been against the Ecuadorian government targets, the country that gave Julian Assange to the UK police." -DefCon Lab

The hacker Al1ne ( Pryzraky ) performed page defacements against and released a list of vulnerable targets related to the government of Ecuador.

Agrocalidad - The Agency of Regulation and Control Fito and Zoosanitario: http://www.agrocalidad.gob.ec/

Metropolitan Transit Agency: http://www.amt.gob.ec/

Instituto Geográfico Militar - Ecuador: http://www.igm.gob.ec/

As noted by Fairbanks, "The cyber attack was reminiscent of 2010’s “Operation Avenge Assange” which was launched by the broader “Operation Payback” effort. The movement lead to hacktivists hitting companies such as PayPal, PostFinance, Mastercard, Visa, and others who had blocked services to WikiLeaks with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. This is when a website is flooded with fake traffic until it crashes and goes offline."

Following Assange's Thursday arrest, more than 70 MPs and peers signed a letter urging the UK home secretary to ensure that the WikiLeaks founder is extradited to Sweden if Swedish authorities request it. Sweden is considering whether to open a previously-dropped investigation into allegations of rape and sexual assault against Assange. The United States, meanwhile, wants to try Assange for the largest-ever leak of government secrets in 2010. On Thursday, the Justice Department hit him with an indictment that claims the WikiLeaks founder helped former US Army intelligence analyst crack DoD password using Linux. "The indictment alleges that in March 2010, Assange engaged in a conspiracy with Chelsea Manning, a former intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on U.S. Department of Defense computers connected to the Secret Internet Protocol Network (SIPRNet), a U.S. government network used for classified documents and communications," reads a DOJ press release. Materials Manning released included videos of various US airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the "Iraq War Logs" and "Afghan War Diary." Assange faces five years in prison if convicted in the Manning case.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-13/ecuador-hacked-after-julian-assange-arrest

Notable: Photos resurface of 'closed-door' meeting between Ilhan Omar and Erdogan

Photos Surface Revealing 2017 ‘Closed-Door’ Meeting Between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan

Conservative Review reporter Jordan Schachtel recently came upon an interesting tidbit in the Tusmo Times, a publication that covers the Somali community in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, area. He found a story there by the Somali-language paper’s founder and editor, Abdirahman Mukhtar, about a “closed-door meeting” that took place in New York City in September 2017 between visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a then-relatively unknown Minnesota state representative named Ilhan Omar.

Omar, a Muslim immigrant from Somalia who won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2018, reportedly led a delegation of Somalis from Minnesota to meet with Erdogan in New York. Erdogan was in town for the annual UN General Assembly meeting and Omar flew in to meet him at a local hotel in downtown New York City.

What is most interesting about this meeting, however, aside from the fact that the President of Turkey agreed to meet with a local Minnesota state legislator, is that it took place in the very same hotel room where Erdogan, either just before or just after his meeting with Omar, met with the assembled top leadership of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.

https://truepundit.com/photos-surface-revealing-2017-closed-door-meeting-between-rep-ilhan-omar-and-turkish-president-erdogan/

Notable: Dems screech over Nunes plan for private chat with Barr (DCExaminer)

PANIC

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-lash-devin-nunes-plan-for-private-chat-with-barr?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_04/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=260

Notable: Greg Craig, former BHO aide pleads Not Guilty to Lying to Justice Dept. (NYT)

Gregory Craig Pleads Not Guilty to Lying to Justice Dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/gregory-craig-pleads-not-guilty.html

Notable: Israeli Airstrike On Northern Hama Destroyed Syrian Long-Range Rocket Launcher

Israeli Airstrike On Northern Hama Destroyed Syrian Long-Range Rocket Launcher

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) lost at least one Maysalun heavy artillery rocket launcher as a result of the recent Israeli airstrikes on the town of Umm Haratayn in northern Hama, a photo released by pro-government activists on April 13 revealed.

Despite the low quality of the photo, the base of the launch rail, the back stairs and the hydraulic outriggers stabilizers can be seen in the remains of the rocket launcher.

Maysalun is a Syrian-made variant of the Iranian Zelzal-2 unguided long-range artillery rocket. The rocket has a range of 210km and a heavy high-explosive (HE) warhead. Israeli sources had accused Iran and Syria of installing guidance systems in these types of rockets, effectively converting them into precision-guided rockets.

While the rocket launcher was destroyed in Umm Haratayn, the new Israeli attack was focused on the town of Masyaf in western Hama. According to RT, Israeli warplanes destroyed the College of Management, the Scientific Research center and the Accounting School in the town. More than 23 people, including 3 Syrian service members, were injured as a result.

According to the available information, Israeli warplanes launched stand-off munitions at their targets from Lebanon airspace. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has launched multiple attacks on Syria in the same way since 2011.

https://southfront.org/israeli-airstrike-on-northern-hama-destroyed-syrian-long-range-rocket-launcher/

Notable: Flynn twitter banner change, Q drops related to waves

General Flynn banner change today and possible related Q drops!

Notable: @45_Schedule: NK legislature replaces key officials

POTUS SCHEDULE

https://www.nknews.org/2019/04/north-koreas-legislature-replaces-key-officials-in-first-meeting-since-election/

https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1117138731918610432?s=19

"North Korea’s legislature replaces key officials in first meeting since election."

*First official photo of North Korea’s newly selected leadership team.

Notable: >>6166181 U.S. Completes Transfer of 47k Declassified docs to Argentine Government

U.S. Completes Historic Transfer of 47,000 Declassified Documents to Argentine Government

Declassification Diplomacy: Trump Administration Turns Over Massive Collection of Intelligence Records on Human Rights and Argentina

Today in a diplomatic ceremony hosted by U.S. Archivist David Ferriero at the National Archives, U.S. officials completed the turnover of some 7,500 CIA, FBI, DOD, NSC and State Department records—47,000 pages in total—to Argentina’s Minister of Justice and Human Rights, German Garavano. Ferriero said that reviewers worked for a total of 32,000 hours to complete the task, which began during the Obama administration and was completed under the Trump administration, and were able to release the documents 97% unredacted.

https://unredacted.com/2019/04/12/u-s-completes-historic-transfer-of-47000-declassified-documents-to-argentine-government-frinformsum-4-12-2019/

Notable: Colorado ‘Red Flag’ Gun Restriction Bill Signed Into Law (Epoch)

Colorado ‘Red Flag’ Gun Restriction Bill Signed Into law

Frenly reminder: Guns are safe-Q

Lawmakers in Colorado signed a “Red Flag” gun bill into law on April 12 that will allow the removal of guns from a person deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. Law enforcement, family, and household members will be able to petition for the temporary removal of a persons right to possess a firearm, after proving with facts that the person poses a significant risk.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/colorado-red-flag-gun-restriction-bill-signed-into-law_2878414.html

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1177

Notable: London police fire shots & seal off Ukrainian Embassy after ‘ramming attack’ on envoy’s car

London police fire shots & seal off Ukrainian Embassy after ‘ramming attack’ on envoy’s car

Police “discharged firearms” and sealed off a street in the western Holland Park area of London after a reported confrontation with a vehicle near the Ukrainian Embassy. Witnesses heard at least 10 gunshots fired.

Ruptly’s footage from the scene shows a sedan with its doors open in the middle of the street and forensic officers examining the area. The location has been cordoned off and a heavy police presence can be seen.

The Ukrainian Embassy described the incident as a “deliberate” ramming of the ambassador’s parked car.

“The police were called immediately, and the suspect’s vehicle was blocked up. Nevertheless, despite the police actions, the attacker hit the ambassador’s car again. In response, the police were forced to open fire on the perpetrator’s vehicle. The culprit was apprehended and taken to a police station,” the embassy said in a statement.

https://www.rt.com/uk/456424-shooting-ukraine-embassy-london/

Notable: Scientologists, Satanism and The Manson Family dig

Scientologists, Satanism and The Manson Family

The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known as the Process Church, was a religious group established in London in 1966. Its founders were the British couple Mary Ann MacClean and Robert de Grimston and it spread across parts of the United Kingdom and United States during the latter 1960s and 1970s.

The Process Church was established by MacLean and de Grimston in London in 1966. The pair had met several years previously, when they were both members of the Church of Scientology. The duo were ejected from the Church in 1962 and married the following year. They started a Scientology splinter group called Compulsions Analysis, which gained new religious elements and developed into the Process Church. Its members initially lived in a commune in Mayfair before moving to Xtul in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They later established a base of operations in the United States in New Orleans. Prosecutors investigating the Los Angeles murders committed by the Manson Family in 1969 suggested that there were links between Charles Manson and the Process Church. Although no proof of such a connection was ever provided, the allegations damaged the Church's reputation.

In the early 1970s, the sociologist William Sims Bainbridge studied the group, producing an in-depth account of its activities. In 1974, MacLean and de Grimston separated. The latter tried to continue the group with a small following, but this folded in 1979. MacLean retained the allegiance of the majority of Church members, reforming the group as the Foundation Church of the Millennium and taking it into an explicitly Christian direction. It was later transformed into the Best Friends Animal Society, based at Kanab, Utah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Church_of_the_Final_Judgment

The Process held that God is made of four separate parts equally worthy of worship – Jehovah, Christ, Lucifer and Satan — and that a person must worship all four in succession to gain enlightenment.[4] Their newsletter was in vogue during the era of flower power, and featured articles about the Rolling Stones, Charles Manson and the like.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_de_Grimston

Notable: Yellow Vest Gilets Jaunes protests Act 22

Yellow Vest Act 22: Clashes in Toulouse, Vikings in Paris

Sporadic clashes with police marred Yellow Vests protests in Toulouse, the city chosen as the ‘capital’ of this week’s anti-government marches in France. Act 22 is the first since a controversial anti-rioting law took effect.

This Saturday marked the 22nd consecutive week of the “Gilets Jaunes” movement as France once again saw anti-government protests, which were held in cities such as Lyon, Bordeaux, Marseilles, and Strasbourg. In the French capital of Paris alone, some 5,000 demonstrators took to the streets, according to the French Interior Ministry.

Unlike some earlier protest gatherings, no major rioting has occurred so far this weekend. However, Toulouse, which was declared a “capital” of this Saturday’s protests, still saw street violence as the protest march there spiraled into clashes with police less than an hour after its beginning.

The protesters were seen throwing stones, bottles, and firecrackers at the officers, who responded with tear gas. Police also blocked several streets and used water cannons to disperse the crowd. At least 23 people were detained in Toulouse following the clashes that left at least two people injured, according to Le Figaro.

More

https://www.rt.com/news/456422-yellow-vests-act-22/

Notable: Did Flynn's twitter banner change recently?

When did General Flynn’s background change? Didn’t see it in notables.

Notable: Heckler shouts about Epstein, Lolita Express at Clinton speaking event

“Bill, This Is Boring!” - Heckler Sums Up Clinton National Speaking Tour

Maureen Callahan of The New York Post attended the event and had this to report:

Now that they’ve been dismissed, defanged and declawed by their own party, Bill and Hillary Clinton are doing what comes naturally: Hitting people up for money.

https://thegoldwater.com/news/43999-Bill-This-Is-Boring-Heckler-Sums-Up-Clinton-National-Speaking-Tour

Notable: Tom Fitton slams [[[Brennan]]]: "unhinged attacks on Trump" (GatewayPundit)

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Attacks President Trump as Cowardly and Unfit For Office

The coup that failed.

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll John Brennan viciously went after Trump and accused the President of being a coward who is unfit for office.

Brennan got triggered after President Trump tweeted his support for dumping illegal aliens into sanctuary cities.

“Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only. The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!” Trump said in a pair of tweets Friday.

Brennan attacked Trump as unfit for office and said his policies are cowardly.

“Your unfitness for office has never been more stark, your lack of humanity never more apparent, your politics never more craven, & your ultimate political ignominy never more certain,” Brennan said in a tweet.

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Attacks President Trump as Cowardly and Unfit For Office

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John Brennan

The coup that failed.

Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll John Brennan viciously went after Trump and accused the President of being a coward who is unfit for office.

Brennan got triggered after President Trump tweeted his support for dumping illegal aliens into sanctuary cities.

“Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only. The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy – so this should make them very happy!” Trump said in a pair of tweets Friday.

Brennan attacked Trump as unfit for office and said his policies are cowardly.

“Your unfitness for office has never been more stark, your lack of humanity never more apparent, your politics never more craven, & your ultimate political ignominy never more certain,” Brennan said in a tweet.

Brennan went into overdrive after Attorney General Bill Barr dropped the spying allegation bomb on the upper echelons of Obama’s intel agencies during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

Brennan ran to the hate Trump media to attack Barr and continued to spread Russia conspiracy theories.

John Brennan promoted Hillary’s fraudulent dossier then lied about it.

He perjured himself in a May 2017 when he said that he did not include Hillary’s phony dossier in the IC report.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton slammed Brennan’s latest attacks on Trump.

“Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s unhinged attacks on Trump help explain Obama admin’s spying abuses targeting Trump. That Judicial Watch had to file this lawsuit shows CIA has something to hide on Obama-era targeting of Trump.” Fitton said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/ex-cia-chief-john-brennan-attacks-president-trump-as-cowardly-and-unfit-for-office/

Notable: Vote to be held on whether to oust MZ from Facebook (@NewsBreaking)

BREAKING: Vote to be held on whether Mark Zuckerberg will be ousted from Facebook

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1117140439428059136

Notable: >>6165297 @45_Schedule: "[NK replaces] key officials in first meeting since election."

https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1117138731918610432?s=19

"North Korea’s legislature replaces key officials in first meeting since election."

*First official photo of North Korea’s newly selected leadership team.

https://t.co/kstJ3QUmjZ https://t.co/vbizFq9z4a

Notable: Wikileaks receives nearly $30k USD worth of BTC after Assange arrest (CryptoGlobe)

Data suggests WikiLeaks has over the years received 4,000 bitcoins in donations, totaling over $22 million.

https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/04/wikileaks-received-nearly-30000-worth-of-bitcoin-after-assange-arrest/

Notable: Dinesh D'Souza and Dan Bongino muse on Swamp rats in the courts

Assured swamp rats have ascended to the courts.

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1117118400000430080

Notable: Ilhan Omar tweets a wall of text

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1117131634514583552

Notable: Balcony kid killer was previously banned from property

Man accused of pushing child off Mall of America balcony had previously been banned from property

Police said Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, of Minneapolis, was being held on suspicion of attempted homicide.

Aranda's criminal record includes two convictions in 2015 for obstruction of the legal process/interfering with a peace officer, as well as convictions for fifth-degree assault, trespassing and damage to property.

Court records show Aranda was arrested on July 4, 2015, after police said he matched the description of a man throwing things off the upper level of the Mall of America to the lower level. Police say Aranda refused to give his name and resisted arrest. Aranda also was accused of walking into a mall store and sweeping his hand across a display table, breaking glasses.

In October 2015, Aranda was accused of throwing glasses in Twin Cities Grill in the mall. The complaint says Aranda approached a woman who was waiting for the restaurant to open and asked her to buy him something. The woman refused, and Aranda allegedly threw a glass of water in her face and a glass of tea that struck her leg. Aranda was under a trespass notice at the time banning him from the mall until July 4, 2016.

https://twitter.com/MyNBC5/status/1117131689606643712

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/man-arrested-after-5-year-old-reportedly-pushed-from-3rd-floor-balcony-at-mall-of-america/27130934?utm_campaign=WPTZ&utm_content=5cb22991e6dfda0001dd2fb2&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=trueAnthem:+New+Content

Notable: @Bongino: Justice is coming, and D's are PANICKING

PANIC

https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1117130374419832833

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-lash-devin-nunes-plan-for-private-chat-with-barr?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_04/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=260

Democrats lash Devin Nunes plan for private chat with William Barr

Notable: Pencil Neck Schiff: Ilhan Omar is a victim! Reeeeee!

https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1117127615599521794

Notable: @RudyGiuliani: Comey says AG spying comments are "concerning?" You should be concerned Jim…

https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani/status/1117125659522945024

Notable: FLOTUS: So grateful… #VolunteerWeek

@FLOTUS

So grateful to all the @WhiteHouse volunteers who give their time & talent helping in so many ways. Thank you for all you do! #VolunteerWeek

https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1117120354097487873

Notable: New Palestinian government sworn in (Reuters)

News

New Palestinian government sworn in amid factional tensions

RAMALLAH, GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday swore in a new government headed by a loyalist from his dominant Fatah party, a move rejected by his Islamist rival Hamas as a blow to unity efforts.

Mohammed Shtayyeh, an economist and longtime Abbas adviser, will serve as prime minister of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA). Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Finance Minister Shukri Bishara will continue in their positions.

Shtayyeh was named Palestinian prime minister on March 10, replacing the independent university president Rami Al-Hamdallah. He will run the ministries of interior and religious affairs until new appointees are named for the two posts.

The rival Hamas group that runs Gaza called the move blow to unity efforts that faltered since the two groups signed a new reconciliation deal in Cairo in October 2017, but disputes over power-sharing had blocked the implementation of the agreement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-politics/new-palestinian-government-sworn-in-amid-factional-tensions-idUSKCN1RP0KM

Notable: >>6164676 Hacker group claims stole personal info of thousands of federal officials from FBI

No Wonder They Couldn’t Figure Out If HRCs Server Was Hacked, Or If She Just Left The Door Open

Hacker group claims it stole personal info of thousands of federal officials from FBI

by Alana Goodman

| April 13, 2019 11:09 AM

Thousands of FBI and law enforcement officials could be at risk after having their personal data stolen and published by a group of anonymous hackers, according to a new report.

The hackers accessed three websites affiliated with the FBI National Academy Associates, a nonprofit education and training program for law enforcement officials located near the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., according to TechCrunch.

The stolen data includes around 4,000 member records, including names, email addresses, job titles, phone numbers, and mailing addresses of federal agents and law enforcement officials. The hackers claimed to have stolen “over a million” pieces of data from the breach.

The hackers claim they plan to sell the data on the dark web, and have also posted some of it on their own websites for free to drum up interest from potential buyers and advertise the “interesting” nature of the content.

When asked if the information would put law enforcement officials at risk, one of the hackers told TechCrunch, “Probably, yes.”

“We hacked more than 1,000 sites,” the hacker said. “Now we are structuring all the data, and soon they will be sold. I think something else will publish from the list of hacked government sites.”

The hacker said the group was able to access the information through security vulnerabilities in the websites, and claimed to have stolen the information in order to gain “experience and money.”

Notable: >>6164719 @wikileaks clarifies: no new "dead man switch" dump. Page has existed for years.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1117123131804737541

to believe or not to believe

Notable: James Woods, G Papa roasting [[[Brennan]]]

This delusional communist at one time wielded unimaginable power in the bowels of government.

It is you, #JohnBrennan, and your nefarious ilk the Founding Fathers feared the most.

You are the very embodiment of the “enemy within.”

twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1117120860895109121

twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1116821069648879616

[archive.is/jUIRU]

twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1117104269134401537

Notable: Pessimistic rumblings from International Monetary and Financial Committee

Global economic growth risks skewed to the downside: IMFC

(moar fear porn from the originators of it)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Global financial officials on Saturday said risks to worldwide economic growth were “tilted to the downside” due to factors such as trade tensions, policy uncertainty and the sudden tightening of financial conditions.

The heightened risks are presenting themselves against a backdrop of limited policy space, historically high debt levels and heightened financial vulnerabilities, officials said in the joint communique of the International Monetary Fund’s steering committee. The statement was released at the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington.

Earlier, China took a swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies that have sparked a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies, including tit-for-tat tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods.

“The protectionism of some countries has harmed mutual trust among countries, limited the scope for multilateral cooperation, and impeded the willingness to achieve it,” Chen Yulu, a vice governor at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said in a statement to the International Monetary and Financial Committee, or IMFC.

“Unilateralism and protectionism can only exacerbate domestic imbalances and impair necessary structural adjustments, which can negatively affect the countries concerned as well as global growth,” he said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-worldbank/global-economic-growth-risks-skewed-to-the-downside-imfc-idUSKCN1RP0KE?il=0

Notable: Wikileaks Julian Assange indictment pdf

Probably missed the notable and/or discussion about pic and link related. Am assuming that I'm not the only one.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5816940/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-Indictment.pdf

Notable: @TeamTrump Spying Obama Dank Meme and merch

SPY GAMES!

twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1116828864821460997

>//watch the video//

Notable: Military Faces High Turnover of Top Brass; Civilians serving acting posts (via WSJ)

Where do you think they’re going….?

The Pentagon is soon expected to undergo its most dramatic period of turnover at top military levels under the Trump administration. At least 5 of the 7 members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will be replaced this year. –

CHANGES AT THE MILITARY

–Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: Marine Gen. Joe Dunford is retiring; Gen. Mark Milley, now the Army chief of staff, was nominated to succeed him.

–Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman: Air Force Gen. Paul Selva is retiring. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of U.S. Strategic Command, was nominated to succeed him.

–Head of the Army: Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville was nominated to succeed Gen. Milley.

–Head of the Navy: Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is retiring. Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Moran was nominated Thursday to succeed Adm. Richardson.

–Commandant of the Marines: Gen. Robert Neller is retiring. Lt. Gen. David Berger was nominated to succeed him.

–Head of U.S. forces in Middle East and Afghanistan: Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, has retired. Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the Joint Staff director, succeeded him.

–Commander of European Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe: Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti is retiring. Gen. Tod D. Wolters, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Africa and Allied Air Command, was nominated to succeed him.

–Commander of U.S. Africa Command: Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser is retiring. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, was nominated to succeed him.

–Head of U.S. special operations command: Gen. Raymond Thomas III, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, retired. Army Lt. Gen. Richard Clarke, director for strategic plans and policy at Joint Staff, succeeded him.

–Head of U.S. nuclear forces: Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, has been named vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His replacement hasn’t been named.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/turnover-among-military-brass-as-civilians-serve-in-acting-posts-11555061401

Notable: Former HRC aide behind lobbying efforts to Kavanaugh fired from summer job

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1117113514525626369

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/former-hillary-clinton-aide-behind-lobbying-efforts-to-get-university-to-fire-kavanaugh

Hillary Clinton’s former campaign spokesperson is leading a campaign to get Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh fired from a summer teaching job at George Mason University, according to a report.

Demand Justice, a liberal advocacy group run by Clinton’s 2016 campaign press secretary Brian Fallon, is running a Facebook ad campaign targeting students at George Mason University, Fox News reports. Fallon’s ads ask students to sign a Change.org petition to oust Kavanaugh from his summer teaching gig at the university due to sexual assault allegations against him.

A student group called Mason for Survivors has been circulating the same petition since last month. The petition, which has received more than 5,000 signatures, calls on the university to “Terminate AND void ALL contracts and affiliation with Brett Kavanaugh,” release any documents related to his hiring and issue a public apology. The petition also calls on the school to fund more resources for sexual assault victims.

Demand Justice doesn’t disclose its funding, leaving it unclear who is bankrolling the campaign.

Fallon defended the ads in a news release, saying that Kavanaugh “has been credibly accused of sexual assault by multiple women whose allegations have not been thoroughly investigated.”

“His confirmation to the Supreme Court does not absolve him of guilt, and he should not be given a platform to teach,” said Fallon. “We stand with survivors and urge the George Mason University administration to fire Kavanaugh.”…

Notable: US Capitol custodial staff allege degenerate activity after hours

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1117091936295366656

Notable: >>6163889 Claire Smith, Mifsud Dig

>>6163902

"3/ Misfud and Claire Smith of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee and eight year member of the UK Security Vetting panel both trained Italian security services at the Link university in Rome and appear to be both present in this phone http://archive.is/YX9jq#selection-341.263-347.99 …"

https://twitter.com/DefendAssange/status/976943598049558528

Notable: UK Police shut down factory after finding 15 slaves/trafficked workers

slavery still happening in modern UK

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6918725/Police-shut-West-Midlands-factory-finding-15-suspected-SLAVES-including-child.html

Notable: Attempted violence vs a Conservative on college campus (@DonJr via Breitbart)

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/04/13/police-investigating-bias-incident-at-south-seattle-college-after-tpusa-president-stalked-by-man-in-suv/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Notable: FBI "Russian Spy" placed in Trump Campaign? (Bezos WaPo; Breitbart)

2nd FBI SPY placed in Trump Campaign

“(FBI Russian spy) Henry Greenberg, who has also used the name Henry Oknyansky, has dismissed reports that he is an FBI informant, saying he has not done any work for the bureau since 2013.”

Russian FBI spy/informant tried to sell Hillary dirt to Roger Stone and to Michael Caputo of Trump 2016 campaign.

Caputo-Greenberg caper:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/2016-trump-campaign-adviser-russian-fbi-informant-tried-framing-me-with-clinton-dirt/

Other SPY was UK/ US spy Stefan Halper.

Images of “Russian” agents:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/trump-russia-contacts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b9608db6337b

Notable: DJT RT: Ilhan Omar Never Forget video

DJT RT Illhan Omar video

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1116817144006750209

Notable: White House RT: Sen Barrasso (R-WY) shares highlights on tax reform, jobs report

WHITE HOUSE RETWEET

https://twitter.com/SenateGOP/status/1116672310633742339?s=19

Notable: @USMC Tweet: Welcome to 400

Welcome to 400

twitter.com/USMC/status/1117034700860796928

Notable: Friendly reminder: Wikileaks site is comped, but "we have the source" (Q#1595)

>>6163871

Notable: Minnesota Kid Murderer dig

>>6163808

>>6163823

Hes from Omar's district

Notable: PANIC: Cindy McNoName re: Trump Human Trafficking Proposal

Cindy McCain Rips Trump’s Human Trafficking Proposal: ‘A Wall is Not Going to Fix This’

Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), ripped a proposal by President Donald Trump to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to blunt the flow of human trafficking in an interview airing Friday.

“The people that are coming over the border, for the most part, are not trafficked individuals,” McCain told NBC News reporter Cynthia McFadden. “It’s people within our own walls, in our own borders, so a wall is not going to fix this, but education will and awareness will and strengthening our laws will.”

“The misnomer in this is that somehow this occurs outside the country, that somehow its another country — not us, ever us. Well, it is very much us,” she continued. “The trafficking I’m talking about with you is domestic trafficking, these are domestic individuals being trafficked.”

McCain serves on the Arizona governor’s human trafficking council and has worked on initiatives to reform laws on the issue since 2004.

McCain recently apologized after law enforcement disputed her claim that she stopped a human-trafficking attempt at an airport in Glendale, Arizona. She made the false presumption because a woman was accompanying a child of “a different ethnicity.”

In February, President Trump said human traffickers were “going through a border where there’s nobody for miles and miles, and there’s no wall to protect,” adding, “they come into our country and they sell people.”

In her interview with NBC News, McCain also criticized the lack of civility in U.S. politics and said that her late husband would have been saddened by the state of Democrat-Republican relations. “I am quite certain he knows what’s going on,” she said. “I know he’d be so upset over this because of the tenor, the lack of inaction on many members’ parts, specifically on members of Congress,” McCain said. “He would’ve been right in the mix saying we’re going to work together, please let’s not fight. That’s who he was.”

She continued: “Oh, he loved a good fight. Heck, yeah. But it was never personal with him. He and Ted Kennedy used to fight like cats and dogs on the floor. but they were the best of friends. I wish we could go back to that.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/12/cindy-mccain-rips-trump-human-trafficking-proposal/

Notable: Assange faces time in "Britain's Guantanamo" (twat cap, via Bloomberg)

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1117096692715859968

Notable: Roger Stone seeks full Mueller report

Trump confidant Roger Stone seeks full Mueller report

President Donald Trump's longtime confidant, Roger Stone, asked a federal judge Friday to compel the Justice Department to turn over a full copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation as part of discovery in his criminal case.

Stone has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to Congress, engaged in witness tampering and obstructed a congressional investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In a court filing late Friday night, his lawyers said Stone is entitled to see the confidential report — which was submitted to the attorney general late last month — because it would help prove their allegation that there are constitutional issues with the investigation.

In a separate action, a former aide to Stone who was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury asked a federal appeals court to determine whether he still needs to testify now that the Russia probe has concluded.

In court documents, the lawyers argue they are entitled to a private disclosure of the nearly 400-page report that Mueller submitted to Attorney General William Barr late last month and said they "must be allowed to review the Report in its entirety because it contains the government's evidence and conclusions on matters essential to Stone's defense."

"To be clear, Stone is not requesting the Report be disclosed to the world - only to his counsel so that it may aid in preparing his defense," the lawyers wrote.

Stone, who is set to go on trial in November, has maintained his innocence and blasted the special counsel's investigation as politically motivated. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from conversations he had during the campaign about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released material stolen from Democratic groups, including Hillary Clinton's campaign.

In a four-page letter to Congress that detailed Mueller's "principal conclusions," Barr said the special counsel did not find a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump associates during the campaign, but did not reach a definitive conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice. Instead, Mueller presented evidence on both sides of the obstruction question, but Barr said he did not believe the evidence was sufficient to prove that Trump had obstructed justice.

Barr has said he expects to release a redacted version of Mueller's report next week that will be sent to Congress and made public.

In the separate case, Andrew Miller, a former Stone aide, filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia over the subpoena he was issued in Mueller's investigation.

Last year, Mueller's team sought Miller's testimony regarding Stone, WikiLeaks and the Russian government-controlled online persona Guccifer 2.0, which was used to release hacked material during the 2016 election. But Miller challenged his grand jury subpoena, arguing that Mueller's appointment was unconstitutional.

Earlier this year a three-judge panel of the court upheld the special counsel's appointment and a contempt order intended to force Miller to testify.

In the new petition, Miller's attorney, Paul Kamenar, argued that the matter now appears to be moot because Stone has been indicted and like "Cinderella's carriage that turned into a pumpkin at midnight, special counsel Mueller's authority expired."

Kamenar is now asking the court to have the government formally say whether it will still pursue Miller's testimony. If that's the case, Kamenar is asking for a rehearing of the case. He said in a statement that he will take the fight to the Supreme Court if necessary.

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article229214134.html

Notable: >>6163725 MSM identity politics maximum hypocrisy re 5 y/o thrown off balcony

MSM is getting ahead of this story as we speak.

FUCK THEM FUCK THEM FUCK THEM!!!!

Notable: >>6163646 Sudan: New military council leader promises civilian government (Reuters)

News

New military council leader promises civilian government for Sudan

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The new head of Sudan’s military council said on Saturday a civilian government would be formed after consultations with the opposition and the transition period would last for a maximum of two years, as protesters kept up pressure for rapid change.

Notable: >>6163564, >>6163959 Police in London open fire as vehicle rams Ukraine embassy car, no injuries

=NEWS=

Man arrested in London after 'deliberately' ramming into Ukrainian ambassador's car, forcing police to open fire

https://www.foxnews.com/world/man-arrested-london-ukraine-ambassador-car-police-fire

Notable: First Chinese deepwater rig in South China Sea aims to supply LNG to Greater Bay Area

First Chinese deepwater rig in South China Sea aims to supply LNG to Greater Bay Area

A controversial offshore drilling platform has started deepwater operations in the South China Sea, which officials said would supply liquefied natural gas to the “Greater Bay Area”

in the future.

It is the first Chinese-built deepwater rig, and its first deep-sea well was completed in eastern waters of the South China Sea in recent days, according to a statement by its operator, state-run China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).

The well is 4,660 metres deep, with a true vertical depth – or the distance in a straight line from the surface to the bottom of the borehole – of 2,529 metres.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3006044/first-chinese-deepwater-rig-south-china-sea-aims-supply-lng

Notable: Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President Same Day as Assange’s Arrest?

Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President Rafael Correa on Same Day as Assange’s Arrest

Facebook has unpublished the page of Ecuador’s former president, Rafael Correa, the social media giant confirmed on Thursday, claiming that the popular leftist leader violated the company’s security policies.

In a statement republished by Ecuadorean newspaper El Comercio, a company spokesperson said:

Protecting the privacy and security of people is central to Facebook [and] we have clear policies that do not allow the disclosure of personal information such as phone numbers, addresses, bank account data, cards, or any record or data that could compromise the integrity physical or financial of the people in our community.

The move comes on the same day that Ecuador’s government allowed British security personnel to enter their embassy in London to arrest journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been sought by U.S. officials for years due to his role in releasing scandalous information implicating Washington in a range of crimes, including war crimes.

https://www.activistpost.com/2019/04/facebook-removes-page-of-ecuadors-former-president-rafael-correa-on-same-day-as-assanges-arrest.html

Notable: Clintons viciously heckled at speech in NYC - The walk down the street Edition

>>6162695

walk down the street edition.

Notable: New York Times: Trump’s Immigration Policy Wins Black Votes

New York Times: Trump’s Immigration Policy Wins Black Votes

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/04/12/new-york-times-trumps-immigration-policy-wins-black-votes/

Democrats must block President Donald Trump from using his pro-American immigration policy to win more African-American voters, says New York Times columnist Charles Blow.

“I believe that Trump’s team, if not him, understands the fissures in this immigration debate and is using them,” Blow wrote April 10. He continued:

As Trump said in January in an Oval Office address after shutting the government down because Congress wouldn’t fund the construction of his wall: “All Americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages. Among those hardest hit are African-Americans and Hispanic Americans.”

That is a pitch to both blacks and Hispanics already in this country. There is a real cleavage between second-, third- and fourth-generation Hispanics and new arrivals.

…

A Quinnipiac University poll last year found that 54 percent of blacks and 55 percent of Hispanics thought immigrants’ illegal crossing of the border with Mexico was an important problem. Additionally, 31 percent of blacks and 40 percent of Hispanics believed in using the National Guard to patrol the border with Mexico, and 13 percent of blacks and 25 percent of Hispanics supported the building of Trump’s wall.

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Trump Threatens To Send 'Illegals' To Sanctuary Cities

In 2016, Trump won the votes of roughly one-in-eight black men and one-in-three Hispanic men, while getting lower support from black and Hispanic women. Some of this sexual disparity exists because of Trump’s “Hire American” economic and immigration policy, which appeals mostly to male voters because it pressures companies to hire Americans at decent wages.

That small level of black electoral support allowed Trump to win the 2016 election — but it may rise before the 2020 election despite Democrats’ loud charges of racism.

In 2018, wages for blue-collar Americans jumped by 4 percent partly because of Trump’s “Hire American” policy.

Studies show that Trump’s green-colored pocketbook politics can be more important for blue-collar blacks than the Democrats’ race and resentment policies, which appeal more to white-collar blacks, such as Blow. In 2006, author Tatishe Nteta wrote in American Political Research journal:

Measures of economic self-interest more strongly account [than estimated collective-interest] for the opinion of African American members of the working class when compared to their middle-class brethren … [and] it appears that class membership is a more powerful force in shaping the attitudes of Blacks in comparison to Whites …

For African Americans who lost a job to an immigrant, working-class membership resulted in a 13 percentage point increase in the probability of support for an increased federal role in workplace oversight [againt employment of illegal immigrants] when compared to middle-class African Americans who experienced a similar loss.

The political result is that:

Working-class African Americans are significantly more supportive of policies that seek to: decrease the number of immigrants coming to the United States, increase the federal role in verifying the employment status of immigrants, and attempts to amend the Constitution’s citizenship provisions.

The enforcement of immigration law is also helping blacks — and Hispanics — get better-paid jobs.

Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university.

But the federal government then imports roughly 1.1 million legal immigrants, refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar guest workers plus roughly 500,000 blue-collar visa workers, and also tolerates about eight million illegal workers.

This federal policy of flooding the market with cheap white-collar graduates and blue-collar foreign labor is intended to boost economic growth for investors.

This policy works by shifting enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts children’s schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions.

Notable: Pelosi is in Germany during congressional recess

Pelosi is in Germany during congressional recess. Might be useful to track where these people go.

Notable: Yellow Vest Act 22 update

Yellow Vest Act 22: Clashes in Toulouse, Vikings in Paris

Sporadic clashes with police marred Yellow Vests protests in Toulouse, the city chosen as the ‘capital’ of this week’s anti-government marches in France. Act 22 is the first since a controversial anti-rioting law took effect.

Several thousand protesters took part in the demonstration in Toulouse on Saturday, marking the 22nd consecutive week of the “gilets jaunes” movement. Smaller rallies involving hundreds of people happened in capital Paris, and other French cities.

Unlike some earlier protest gatherings, no major rioting has occurred so far this weekend. The police in Toulouse was filmed deploying tear gas and some clashes were reported.

🇫🇷💥❗ Absolutely impressive manifestation in #Toulouse, today's capital of the #Resistance by the #GiletsJaunes movement

Thousands over thousands of #YellowVests in the streets

First clashes between cops and GJ were reported during #ActeXXIIpic.twitter.com/K9iORxZ3jX

— Compact News 🌐 (@NewsCompact) April 13, 2019

https://www.rt.com/news/456422-yellow-vests-act-22/

Notable: >>6162981 VP Pence rt Bolton - Cuba exports tyranny and tactics to Maduro's game

>>6162730

TY Baker!!!

https://twitter.com/VP/status/1117072242180001793

Vice President Mike Pence

‏Verified account @VP

18s19 seconds ago

Vice President Mike Pence Retweeted John Bolton

Cuba exports tyranny & strong-arm tactics to prop up Maduro’s brutal regime. The U.S. took action to sanction ships transporting Venezuelan oil to Cuba, and as I previewed at the @UN earlier this week: our Administration just announced additional action to hold Cuba accountable!

Notable: Saudi Arabia Bankrolling Haftar's Bid To Seize All Of Libya

Saudi Arabia Bankrolling Haftar's Bid To Seize All Of Libya

“Haftar would not be a player today without the foreign support he has received,” a Libyan affairs expert told The Wall Street Journal in a new lengthy profile of the Benghazi-based General Khalifa Haftar, whose Libyan National Army (LNA) is advancing this week on Tripoli. As Haftar consolidated power over much of the country's war ravaged east, also making huge gains in the past year over the south, he's all along enjoyed the political backing of an unlikely assortment of powerful countries that include the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, France, and Russia. But the new WSJ report reveals his latest major external backer with endlessly deep pockets: Days before Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive to seize the capital and attempt to unite the divided country under his rule, Saudi Arabia promised tens of millions of dollars to help pay for the operation, according to senior advisers to the Saudi government.

Citing senior Saudi officials, the report reveals further the offer came during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia, as part of a broader trip which took Haftar to European capitals where the perception was that the renegade general now militarily challenging the UN-backed Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) was crucial to negotiating a lasting power sharing settlement between the eastern and western halves of the country. The diplomatic meetings bolstered his status and resolve to take the whole country, even as lately the US and EU have vehemently called on him to halt the LNA's military advance, which lately included airstrikes on suburbs of Tripoli. But apparently, the Saudis and possibly other backers are actually funding the assault on Tripoli, and further securing weaponry. The WSJ continues: Mr. Haftar accepted the recent Saudi offer of funds, according to the senior Saudi advisers, who said the money was intended for buying the loyalty of tribal leaders, recruiting and paying fighters, and other military purposes. “We were quite generous,” one of the advisers said. The report also notes that with his so far rapid advance west, more previously reluctant European officials are jumping on the Haftar train. As we noted previously, "Libya's incoming strongman will send the oil out to Europe, and keep its migrants in." But the Saudis only very recently emerged as apparently Haftar's prime backer, putting into motion the bloody battle for Tripoli that has now been on for a week. The WSJ reports that Haftar's March trip to Riyadh included a key meeting with crown prince MbS: ''The following day, on March 27, he was welcomed in Riyadh by Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Undisclosed by the Saudi government at the time, he also met Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, along with Saudi Arabia’s interior minister and intelligence chief, according to two Saudi officials.''

And now the question remains, if the Saudis are now so aggressively backing him, will Washington be next to officially jump on the bandwagon? It should be noted that the likelihood is that he's already long been the CIA's man in Libya. What's not often stated outright is that Haftar is an American citizen, as recounted in a CNN profile this week: "Haftar is, to be polite, the ultimate pragmatist. He supported Moammar Gadhafi in his 1969 coup, then found himself in Langley, Virginia in the 90s where he gained US citizenship, before returning to overthrow Gadhafi in the 2011 conflict." While in exile in the US he lived a mere minutes from CIA headquarters: "As a military commander, Mr. Haftar broke with Ghaddafi in the 1980s and became part of a C.I.A.-backed effort to destabilize the Libyan regime. He then spent two decades in exile in the U.S., before returning to join the rebellion in 2011," according to the WSJ report.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-12/saudi-arabia-bankrolling-haftars-bid-seize-all-libya

Notable: Tucker: Assange's True Crime Was 'Embarrassing Virtually Everyone In Power in Washington'

Tucker: Assange's True Crime Was 'Embarrassing Virtually Everyone In Power in Washington'

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night that Julian Assange's real crime was embarrassing the powerful in Washington, DC.

"Julian Assange embarrassed virtually everyone in power in Washington," Tucker Carlson said. "He published documents that undermined the official story on the Iraq war and Afghanistan. He got Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired from the DNC. He humiliated Hillary Clinton by showing that the Democratic primaries were in fact rigged."

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60055

Notable: Sudan's intelligence chief quits, protesters keep up pressure

Sudan's intelligence chief quits, protesters keep up pressure

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan’s security and intelligence chief quit on Saturday, state media reported, a day after the defense minister stepped down abruptly as interim leader following the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir and protesters kept up demands for change.

Salah Abdallah Mohamed Saleh, known as Salah Gosh, who headed the National Intelligence and Security Service and was once the most influential person in the country after Bashir, was held responsible by protesters for the killing of demonstrators demanding an end to military rule.

Defense Minister Awad Ibn Auf stepped down as head of the transitional military council late on Friday after only a day in the post, as protesters demanded faster political change.

The new head of the military council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman, accepted Gosh’s resignation, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday.

Burhan is a military commander believed to be more ready to talk to the protesters.

He was the third most senior general in the Sudanese armed forces and is little known in public life. As head of Sudan’s ground forces he oversaw Sudanese troops fighting in the Saudi-led Yemen war and has close ties to senior Gulf military officials.

Celebrations erupted on the streets of Khartoum overnight following Ibn Auf’s resignation. Thousands of protesters waved flags and illuminated mobile phones in the darkness and drivers hooted car horns. People chanted: “The second has fallen!” a reference to Ibn Auf and Bashir, witnesses said.

The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which has been leading protests to demand a civilian government, called for more demonstrations on Saturday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-politics/sudans-intelligence-chief-quits-protesters-keep-up-pressure-idUSKCN1RP06S?il=0

Notable: Migrants break Guatemalan border gate, force their way into Mexico

Migrants break Guatemalan border gate, force their way into Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities said a group of about 350 migrants broke the locks on a gate at the Guatemalan border Friday and forced their way into southern Mexico to join a larger group of migrants trying to make their way toward the United States. The National Immigration Institute did not identify the nationalities of the migrants, but they are usually from Central America. A similar confrontation occurred on the same border bridge between Mexico and Guatemala last year.

The institute said the migrants were acting in a "hostile" and "aggressive" way, and accused them of also attacking local police in Metapa, a Mexican village that lies between the border and the nearby city of Tapachula. The group of 350 pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula in the latest caravan to enter Mexico.

Claudia Jaqueline Sandoval, 43, from El Progreso, Honduras, was walking toward Tapachula with her 6-year-old daughter. Another son and a daughter are already in the United States. "I have been HIV positive for 16 years," said Sandoval, but her reason for going north was not just medical treatment. "It has been two years since I heard from my son" in the United States, and money is scarce, she said.

There are already several groups of migrants in the southern border state of Chiapas who have expressed frustration at Mexico's policy of slowing or stopping the process of handing out humanitarian and exit visas at the border. A group of several hundred Cuban, African and Central American migrants have been waiting at the immigration offices in Tapachula for documents that would allow them to travel to the U.S. border, where most plan to request asylum.

Some members of that group have scuffled with immigration authorities and broken windows at the offices in recent days, accusing officials of making them wait too long for papers. And another group of an estimated 2,500 Central American and Cuban migrants have been stuck for at least a week further west in the Chiapas town of Mapastepec, also waiting for papers.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/migrants-break-guatemalan-border-gate-force-their-way-into-mexico

Notable: Investigation launched into handling of Jussie Smollett case

>>6162231

https://abcnews.go.com/US/investigation-launched-handling-jussie-smollett-case/story?id=62361868

Investigation launched into handling of Jussie Smollett case

Kim Foxx, the embattled Chicago state's attorney whose office has come under fire for its handling of the Jussie Smollett case, has asked the local inspector general to conduct an "independent review" of their investigation, she confirmed in a statement.

The news comes the day after the city's law department announced that they are suing Smollett to recoup the amount that they had to spend in order to cover the overtime of police officers during the investigation.

Smollet's case has sparked a firestorm ever since news broke of the Jan. 29 alleged attack. Controversy was further stoked when police alleged the incident was a hoax and ultimately when prosecutors dropped the charges against the actor.

Foxx said that she "invited" the inspector general, Patrick Blanchard, to look into her office's handling of the case, which involved the "Empire" actor's claims of being a victim of a hate crime that police alleged was a hoax.

"A former prosecutor, Inspector General Blanchard has been conducting independent inquiries for Cook County for over a decade," Foxx wrote in her statement.

"Ensuring that I and my office have the community’s trust and confidence is paramount to me, which is why I invited an independent review of this matter. I welcome this investigation and pledge my full cooperation and the cooperation of my office as IG Blanchard conducts his review."

Notable: Kim open to another summit with Trump, with conditions

Kim open to another summit with Trump, with conditions

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he is open to a third summit with President Donald Trump, but set the year's end as a deadline for Washington to offer mutually acceptable terms for an agreement to salvage the high-stakes nuclear diplomacy, the North's state-run media said Saturday.

Kim made the comments during a speech Friday at a session of North Korea's rubber stamp parliament, which made a slew of personnel changes that bolstered his diplomatic lineup amid stalemated negotiations with the United States. His speech came hours after Trump and visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in met in Washington and agreed on the importance of nuclear talks with North Korea.

"We of course place importance on resolving problems through dialogue and negotiations. But U.S.-style dialogue of unilaterally pushing its demands doesn't fit us, and we have no interest in it," Kim said during the speech.

According to the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA, Kim blamed the collapse of his summit with Trump in February on what he described as unilateral demands by the United States, which he said raised questions over whether Washington has genuine willingness to improve relations. But Kim said his personal relationship with Trump remains good and that they could exchange letters at "any time."

Trump responded to the remarks by saying he agreed with Kim about their relationship, and also expressed a desire for another summit.

"I agree with Kim Jong Un of North Korea that our personal relationship remains very good, perhaps the term excellent would be even more accurate, and that a third Summit would be good in that we fully understand where we each stand," Trump wrote on Twitter.

"North Korea has tremendous potential for … extraordinary growth, economic success and riches under the leadership of Chairman Kim. I look forward to the day, which could be soon, when Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions can be removed, and then watching North Korea become one of the most successful nations of the World!" he tweeted.

In his speech, Kim repeated earlier claims that North Korea's crippled economy would persevere through heavy international sanctions imposed over its nuclear weapons program and that he wouldn't "obsess over summitry with the United States out of thirst for sanctions relief."

The United States has said the summit in Vietnam broke down because of the North's excessive demands for sanctions relief in return for limited disarmament measures. In their first summit last June in Singapore, Trump and Kim issued a vague statement calling for a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula without describing when or how it would occur.

Kim said the United States has been refusing to withdraw what the North perceives as "hostile policies" while sticking to "mistaken judgment that we would succumb to maximum pressure." He said the North would not compromise on the "fundamental interests of our country and people, even by a speck," and blamed the United States for arriving in Hanoi with "completely unrealizable plans."

"If the United States approaches us with the right manner and offers to hold a third North Korea-U.S. leaders' summit on the condition of finding solutions we could mutually accept, then we do have a willingness to give it one more try," Kim added. "We will wait with patience until the end of the year for the United States to come up with a courageous decision. But it will clearly be difficult for a good opportunity like last time to come up."

Kim also during the speech made a nationalistic call for South Korea to support the North's positions more strongly and criticized Seoul for acting like an "overstepping mediator" between Washington and Pyongyang. Kim held three summits last year with Moon, who lobbied hard to revive the nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea. Following the collapse of the Trump-Kim summit, the North had been urging the South to break away from Washington and proceed with inter-Korean economic projects that are currently held back by U.S.-led sanctions against the North.

"The South should not act as an 'overstepping mediator' or a 'facilitator' and should rather get its mind straight as a member of the (Korean) nation and boldly speak up for the interest of the nation," Kim said.

When asked about Kim's comments, South Korea's presidential office said Seoul is committed toward keeping the atmosphere of dialogue alive and helping negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang resume at an early date.

https://www.newser.com/article/732c44609d844ba7a5288ade43bf90bd/kim-open-to-another-summit-with-trump-with-conditions.html

Notable: >>6162066 Ex-CBS Chairman gave up millions in stock following scandal

Ex-CBS Chairman gave up millions in stock following scandal

Former CBS chairman Leslie Moonves gave up his rights to $34.5 million in stock after he resigned last year following a sexual misconduct scandal, reports Variety.

Details: Moonves had $47 million in CBS stock before the allegations of misconduct hit, according to Variety. He was paid $4.6 million in 2018, which includes his salary, a retirement pension and part of his 2017 bonus.

Notable: New Trump twat radical Left in Congress, Mueller, Hillary, and crime committed by DNC

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117040007016009728

Notable: New Trump twats regarding 3rd summit with NK

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1117035779589648386

Notable: Ex-Clinton aide leading ‘dark money’ effort to oust justice Kav from teaching gig

=NEWS=

Ex-Clinton aide leading ‘dark money’ effort to oust justice from teaching gig

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-official-george-mason-kavanaugh-allegations

Notable: UMKC Chancellor Responds to Attack on Conservative Speaker

UMKC Chancellor Responds to Attack on Conservative Speaker

UMKC Chancellor Responds To Assault On Daily Wire's Knowles By Condemning Knowles, Praising Peaceful Protesters

At a Young America's Foundation-sponsored event on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Thursday night, Michael Knowles, host of The Daily Wire's "Michael Knowles Show" podcast, was sprayed by a protester with an unknown chemical substance as Knowles attempted to give a speech titled "Men Are Not Women." The protester's actions prompted police to subdue the assailant as the room erupted in chaos.

On Friday, the chancellor of the university issued a statement to the UMKC campus community in which he praised students who organized to protest the conservative speaker peacefully and condemned Knowles as allegedly holding opinions that "do not align with our commitment to diversity and inclusion and our goal of providing a welcoming environment to all people, particularly to our LGBT community."

(pic related)

https://www.dailywire.com/news/45924/umkc-chancellor-responds-assault-daily-wires-james-barrett

Notable: Inside Assange's fetid Lair

Assange inside his fetid lair: Revealed, the full squalid horror that drove embassy staff to finally kick him out

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6917341/Assange-inside-fetid-lair-squalid-horror-drove-embassy-staff-finally-kick-out.html

Notable: >>6161744 Assange being held at UK equivalent of Gitmo

Julian Assange is being held at ‘Britain’s Guantanamo Bay’

https://twitter.com/rt_com/status/1116811095208005634?s=21

Notable: >>6161700 FB 'accidentally' puts hidden messages in 10s of thousands of VR controllers

Facebook accidentally put hidden messages like 'Big Brother is Watching' and 'The Masons Were Here' in 'tens of thousands' of VR controllers

kek

https://www.businessinsider.de/facebook-weird-messages-oculus-touch-controllers-2019-4

Facebook said it accidentally included cryptic hidden messages in "tens of thousands" of its Oculus Touch virtual-reality controllers.

Printed inside its Touch controllers were phrases like "Big Brother is Watching" and "The Masons Were Here."

Big Brother is Watching

The Masons Were Here

Nate Mitchell, the cofounder of Facebook's Oculus unit, said the messages were intended for prototypes but included in production units by accident.

Facebook said it wouldn't recall the controllers.

How to red-pill the masses.

Notable: >>6161672 ODNI launches Argentina declas project

@intelgov dni.gov/index.php/news…

Notable: Assange's attorney has interviewed NSA Bill Binney

same girl?

https://youtu.be/r9-3K3rkPRE

https://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/assange-lawyer-we-ll-be-fighting-extradition-to-u-s-1488343107947

Notable: Wikileaks' Tor network discussion btwn Assange and Eric Schmidt (2014 Time Article)

Google is not what it seems, says Assange

https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447

n June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country house in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest.

For several hours the besieged leader of the world’s most famous insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the world’s largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin.

They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to Western companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet’s future that has only gathered force subsequently.

In this extract from When Google Met WikiLeaks Assange describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.

Eric Schmidt is an influential figure, even among the parade of powerful characters with whom I have had to cross paths since I founded WikiLeaks. In mid-May 2011 I was under house arrest in rural Norfolk, England, about three hours’ drive northeast of London. The crackdown against our work was in full swing and every wasted moment seemed like an eternity. It was hard to get my attention.

But when my colleague Joseph Farrell told me the executive chairman of Google wanted to make an appointment with me, I was listening.

In some ways the higher echelons of Google seemed more distant and obscure to me than the halls of Washington. We had been locking horns with senior U.S. officials for years by that point. The mystique had worn off. But the power centers growing up in Silicon Valley were still opaque and I was suddenly conscious of an opportunity to understand and influence what was becoming the most influential company on earth. Schmidt had taken over as CEO of Google in 2001 and built it into an empire.

I was intrigued that the mountain would come to Muhammad. But it was not until well after Schmidt and his companions had been and gone that I came to understand who had really visited me.

The stated reason for the visit was a book. Schmidt was penning a treatise with Jared Cohen, the director of Google Ideas, an outfit that describes itself as Google’s in-house “think/do tank.”

I knew little else about Cohen at the time. In fact, Cohen had moved to Google from the U.S. State Department in 2010. He had been a fast-talking “Generation Y” ideas man at State under two U.S. administrations, a courtier from the world of policy think tanks and institutes, poached in his early twenties.

He became a senior advisor for Secretaries of State Rice and Clinton. At State, on the Policy Planning Staff, Cohen was soon christened “Condi’s party-starter,” channeling buzzwords from Silicon Valley into U.S. policy circles and producing delightful rhetorical concoctions such as “Public Diplomacy 2.0.” On his Council on Foreign Relations adjunct staff page he listed his expertise as “terrorism; radicalization; impact of connection technologies on 21st century statecraft; Iran.”

It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran. His documented love affair with Google began the same year when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think/do tank” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was born.

Later that year two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley technologies as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,” Schmidt and Cohen claimed that:

https://file.wikileaks.org/file/cms/assange-schmidt.mp3

12:49

Self censorship discussed by Assange when meeting with Eric Schmidt

Notable: Google sued over Search power abuse (Berlin)

Bring on the lawyers.

EUrewhere.

Class Action coming?

In the suit filed in a Berlin court Friday, Idealo internet GmbH, a leading price-comparison service that is majority-owned by publisher Axel Springer SPR 2.20% SE, alleged that Google made it harder for users of its search engine to find links to Idealo after the U.S. company started promoting its own price-comparison offering, now called Google Shopping. Alphabet’s European entity, Google Ireland Ltd., is also targeted by the suit.

Thomas Höppner, a lawyer representing Idealo, said the potential damages could increase substantially should the judge accept his demand to subpoena data from Google to determine the exact scale and period of the alleged antitrust violation.

“I’m absolutely convinced that our case will send an important signal to the very many companies that have suffered similar damages. We are talking about a lot of money,” Mr. Höppner said. “Many companies are not clearly aware of the potential for claiming back damages they suffered from Google.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/suit-could-raise-googles-liabilities-in-price-comparison-case-11555056397

Notable: >>6161478 5 yo attacked - suspect had previous MoA arrests/chgd with murder

Black Savage Arrested for Throwing Five Year Old White Child from the Third Floor of the Mall of America in Minnesota

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-arrested-after-5-year-old-boy-thrown-from-third-floor-at-mall-of-america

One man told the New York Daily News he saw the immediate aftermath of the incident and that the child was lying “motionless…in a pool of blood.”

Goddamn animal 

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-child-thrown-from-third-floor-mall-of-america-20190412-utlxcv655vdy3i4oibcpon4mhe-story.html

The Jewish Media refuses to put the race in the headline when it's a nigger too and that pisses me the fuck off

Notable: Iranian forces said killed in reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria military site

Iranian forces said killed in reported Israeli airstrikes on Syria military site

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

in the Syrian city of Masyaf on April 13, 2019. (Screengrab/Twitter)

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

According to a report by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Arabic, Iranian “elements” and pro-Iranian militants were killed in the alleged attack, and 17 people were injured.

in the Syrian city of Masyaf on April 13, 2019. (Screengrab/Twitter)

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

According to a report by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Arabic, Iranian “elements” and pro-Iranian militants were killed in the alleged attack, and 17 people were injured.

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Israel does not regularly comment on alleged strikes in Syria, though it has acknowledged some operations.

in the Syrian city of Masyaf on April 13, 2019. (Screengrab/Twitter)

A number of Iranian forces were reportedly killed in an airstrike on a Syrian military position near the city of Masyaf in western Hama province overnight Friday-Saturday. Syrian state media said Israeli jets carried out the raid in the middle of the night, firing missiles while flying in Lebanese airspace.

Syria’s official state news agency SANA said Israel targeted a military site in the area, but that Syrian air defenses intercepted the attack, downing some of the missile fired. The regime mouthpiece said the interception resulted in the destruction of several buildings and the wounding of three “fighters.” The area is known to house Iranian forces and their Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.

According to a report by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in Arabic, Iranian “elements” and pro-Iranian militants were killed in the alleged attack, and 17 people were injured.

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Israel does not regularly comment on alleged strikes in Syria, though it has acknowledged some operations.

The Observatory said Saturday that the strike targeted a Syrian military college in the town and two buildings used by Iranian forces in nearby villages — a development center for medium-range missiles in Zawi and a training camp in Sheikh Ghadban.

Iran has been one of the top military backers of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime in the over nine-year-long civil war in the country, as has been its Lebanese proxy, the Hezbollah terror group.

SANA quoted a military source as saying on Saturday, “Around 2:30 am (2330 GMT Friday)… the Israeli air force carried out a strike targeting one of our military positions in the town of Masyaf,” adding that Syrian air defenses intercepted some of the missiles.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-forces-said-killed-in-reported-israeli-airstrikes-on-syria-military-site/

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Notable: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs 'Heartbeat Bill'

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signs 'Heartbeat Bill'

COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday wasted little time signing what would be one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation.

“The signing of this bill today is consistent with that respect for life and the imperative to protect those who cannot protect themselves,” said Mr. DeWine as he signed the bill in the presence of Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion advocates in his ceremonial Statehouse office.

Even before the Republican governor put ink to paper, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio announced it will file the inevitable court challenge to prevent it from going into effect as scheduled in 90 days.

On Wednesday, the House and Senate, solely with Republican votes, passed the latest version of the so-called “Heartbeat Bill,” which would all but ban an abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That could occur less than six weeks into pregnancy, a point at which, critics argue, a woman may be unaware she’s pregnant.

The bill would make it a fifth-degree felony, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine, for a doctor who fails to test for a fetal heartbeat or proceeds with an abortion after detecting one. In addition to the State Medical Board potentially taking action against the doctor’s license, the board could levy an additional fine of $20,000 to fuel a fund supporting foster-care and adoption services.

“This legislation is blatantly unconstitutional, and we will fight to the bitter end to ensure that this bill is permanently blocked,” Freda Levenson, ACLU legal director, said. “S.B. 23 is one of the most aggressive, oppressive, and radical attacks against women ever seen in this state and this country.

“A nearly identical bill in Kentucky was just struck down by a federal judge,” she said. “We feel confident our impending litigation will ultimately prevail.”

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit would be Pre-term Cleveland, two Planned Parenthood organizations, and the Women’s Med Center of Dayton, all groups previously involved in challenging other anti-abortion laws enacted in recent years by Ohio.

Lawsuits have been filed against similar laws passed in Iowa, Kentucky, Arkansas, and North Dakota. To date, none of those laws has been allowed to take effect, and the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to agree to hear a state’s appeal of those decisions.

Mississippi was the most recent state to pass such a law.

Mr. DeWine noted that Ohio is not the first to take this step.

When asked why Ohio should not let one of those states take the lead rather than have Ohio spend potentially millions to defend its law in court, the governor said simply, “Well, I think it’s the right thing to do.”

Supporters of the bill fully anticipated legal action, and Mr. DeWine called it a “time-honored, constitutional tradition” to pass laws to challenge U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

The bill’s supporters are banking that the U.S. Supreme Court’s more conservative bench, aided by President Trump’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh, will use it as a vehicle to undermine the landmark 1973 decision that recognized abortion as an extension of a woman’s constitutional right to privacy.

“We live in a country with great respect for the law,” Mr. DeWine said. “We will respect the law, and we will respect what the courts decide… It is in that spirit that I signed this today.”

In fact, lawmakers who voted for the bill pointed to last month’s decision by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold Ohio’s law that diverted federal health-care dollars, awarded through the state, away from Planned Parenthood clinics that either perform abortions or make referrals for the procedure.

Mr. Trump has also had an impact on the more recent makeup of that Cincinnati-based bench.

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/politics/2019/04/11/gov-mike-dewine-signs-ohio-heartbeat-bill-anti-abortion-law/stories/20190411136

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Notable: >>6161053 Transgender military ban goes into effect

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Transgender military ban goes into effect

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s controversial policy banning transgender recruits from joining the military went into effect on Friday.

The Pentagon says the new policy does not affect transgender troops currently serving in the armed forces, a contention that’s strongly denied by advocates, who point to the potential for discrimination and harassment.

The ban blocks individuals who have been diagnosed with a condition known as gender dysphoria from joining. Transgender individuals can serve, but only if they meet the standards of the sex they were assigned at birth.

The Pentagon says the policy doesn’t block transgender individuals from service, but advocates say it is designed to operate as a comprehensive ban on their presence. Current military leaders have testified to Congress that transgender troops have not affected cohesion, while retired military leaders have decried the policy as misguided and damaging.

‘Bigoted’

“It’s a bigoted policy. It has not one shred of evidence behind it,” Ray Mabus, a former secretary of the Navy, told CNN. “In fact, all the evidence goes the other way. It goes against the basic American notion that it should be about what you can do and not who you are. … To do this to patriots who are willing to serve — not only willing, but eager to serve, who have raised their hands and said send me — weakens our democracy and seriously weakens our military.”

Anthony Kurta, a Pentagon official acting for the deputy under secretary of personnel and readiness, told reporters Friday that “the department will continue to treat all individuals with dignity and respect, and every service member is able to express their gender identity. DOD will take no action solely based on gender identity.”

The policy, signaled when President Donald Trump tweeted a call for a blanket ban in 2017, still faces lower court challenges, but the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 January order that it could go forward. The justices took no stand on the legality of the ban.

Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Center, a think thank that researches gender and the military, said that “the policy stigmatizes all trans people. … The way the policy will play out on the ground — this will be a green light to commanders who are transphobic,” putting the estimated 14,700 trans members of the military at a disadvantage and forcing many to stay in the closet.

Public opposes the policy

Most Americans oppose the policy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

That poll found 70% believe transgender people should be allowed to serve in the military. The only listed group that disagreed were Republicans, with 50% saying they shouldn’t be allowed and 40% in favor.

Most transgender persons are now disqualified from military service, except:

• Service members who have been stable for three years in their biological sex prior to joining the military — meaning 36 months after surgery and after ending hormone treatments.

• Service members diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” after joining the military can stay in the military if they don’t require a change of gender and remain deployable. Gender dysphoria involves a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned gender and the gender with which the person identifies, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

• Service members who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria before the effective date of the policy can still serve and receive medical treatment.

• Transgender persons without a gender dysphoria diagnosis or history can serve in their birth sex.

Case by case

The Defense Department can issue waivers on a case-by-case basis.

Kurda said Friday that the policy originated in 2017 when “service leadership” approached then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and “expressed some readiness reservations.”

Over a series of hearings by the Senate Armed Services Committee in 2018, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, now a Democratic presidential candidate, asked the chiefs of staff of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force about the issue of transgender troops.

All four said they saw no negative effects from transgender personnel serving.

“I have received precisely zero reports of issues of cohesion, discipline, morale and all those sorts of things,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said at one of the hearings.

Mabus said the case being made against transgender troops has been recycled several times through history.

History repeats itself

https://wgntv.com/2019/04/12/pentagon-transgender-ban-goes-into-effect/

Notable: Chris Christie: Ilhan Omar is 'off her rocker', AOC is a 'joke', should apologize for 9/11 comments

Chris Christie: Ilhan Omar is 'off her rocker', AOC is a 'joke', should apologize for 9/11 comments -

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Notable: April 13, 1953: MKUltra launched by CIA Director Allen Dulles

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Notable: Cernovich tweet: Violent Antifa member at one of his talks arrested for sex solicitation w/newborn infant

Holy shit!!! Not a fan of Mike, but this is really something!!!

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1116754702601863170

Notable: JA associate cyber security expert Arjen Kamphuis mysteriously missing in Norway since 8-20-18

Just a reminder…

JA associate cyber security expert Arjen Kamphuis mysteriously missing in Norway since 20th August 2018

Police in Norway are looking into the disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, a Dutch citizen with links to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Versions on Twitter have ranged from a hiking incident, to a secret assignment, to a CIA hit.

Kamphuis, a cyber security expert and co-author of a handbook for investigative journalists on how to keep themselves and their work safe from government spying, has been missing since August 20th, when he checked out of a hotel in the town of Bodø in northern Norway.

https://www.rt.com/news/437460-assange-associate-missing-police-probe/

Notable: James Woods to HRC: "Do your molars crack when you have to call him the President?"; >>6160989 anon commentary

Do your molars crack when you have to call him the President?

twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1116954763776544768

twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1116829811463327745

Notable: Julian Assange 'must face Swedish justice' if country asks, say MPs

Julian Assange 'must face Swedish justice' if country asks, say MPs

More than 70 MPs have signed a letter urging the home secretary to ensure Julian Assange faces authorities in Sweden if they request his extradition.

Labour's Stella Creasy tweeted a copy of the note sent to Sajid Javid.

WikiLeaks co-founder Assange was arrested on Thursday in relation to an extradition request from the US, where he is facing computer hacking charges.

He had spent seven years in Ecuador's London embassy, evading trial in Sweden for sex assaults which he has denied.

At the time, Assange said he had had entirely consensual sex with two women while on a trip to Stockholm and that the Swedish claims against him were part of a smear campaign.

Swedish prosecutors dropped a rape investigation into Assange in 2017 because they were unable to formally notify him of the allegations while he stayed in the embassy.

Two other charges of molestation and unlawful coercion had to be dropped in 2015 because time had run out.

But Swedish prosecutors say they are now re-examining the 47-year-old's case at the request of the lawyer acting for the alleged rape victim.

The letter, signed by mostly Labour MPs, urges Mr Javid to "stand with the victims of sexual violence" and ensure the rape claim against the 47-year-old can be "properly investigated".

"We do not presume guilt, of course, but we believe due process should be followed and the complainant should see justice be done," it says.

The rape allegation has a limitation period which expires in August 2020, it adds.

Inquiries into claims of molestation and unlawful coercion have already been timed out.

On Friday evening, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said Assange should be extradited to Sweden before any attempt to get him to the US.

She said she was "disgusted" the American allegation had been "allowed to eclipse" the sex offence case.

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Media captionVideo footage shows Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London

Extradition proceedings are dealt with by the courts.

According to the Home Office, the home secretary can bring a limited number of factors into consideration when deciding whether to order a person's extradition.

These include whether the person might be at risk of the death penalty or whether the requesting state might try to add additional charges it has not specified.

However, lawyer Rebecca Niblock said that, if Sweden made an extradition request, it would be for the home secretary to decide which would take precedence, considering factors such as which was made first and the seriousness of the offence.

Australian-born Assange faces a charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in the US for his alleged role in one of the largest ever leaks of government secrets, in 2010, which could result in a prison term of up to five years.

The US Department of Justice has accused him of conspiring with former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to commit "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States".

Advance notice?

Assange sought refuge in the Ecuador embassy, in Knightsbridge, west London, in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault. But after seven years, Ecuador abruptly withdrew its asylum and invited the police to arrest him on Thursday.

The MPs' letter says both UK and US authorities seem to have been aware in advance of Ecuador's decision to rescind Mr Assange's political asylum.

"It is therefore of grave concern to us that it appears that the Swedish authorities were not aware of the plans made to arrest Mr Assange yesterday in London, and we would welcome clarity as to what action the UK authorities took to ensure that the Swedish prosecutors were informed in advance of this decision," it adds.

After his dramatic arrest, Assange was taken to Westminster Magistrates' Court and found guilty of a British charge of breaching bail. He spent Thursday night in custody and is facing up to 12 months in prison for that conviction.

Assange is due to face a hearing over his possible extradition to the US on 2 May.

Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson said they would be fighting the extradition request. She said it set a "dangerous precedent" for journalists publishing information about the US.

The UN has called for his right to a fair trial to be respected during any extradition process.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47917325

Notable: “Obama Officials Spied on Trump Campaign Using at Least Five Methods”

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“Obama Officials Spied on Trump Campaign Using at Least Five Methods”

During the heat of the 2016 presidential elections, officials within the Obama administration, including cabinet-level officials who answered to Obama directly, extensively spied on the campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump.

Both the Department of Justice inspector general and the House intelligence committee are currently probing the actions of the Obama officials and their motivations.

So far, at least five different ways that the officials spied on the Trump campaign have been uncovered.

These include the use of national security letters, a FISA warrant, an undercover informant, the unmasking of identities in intelligence reports, and spying conducted by foreign intelligence agencies.

Each of these methods provided the officials with sensitive information on the Trump campaign that could have been used for political purposes.

Private communications between FBI officials involved in the agency’s investigation on the Trump campaign, reveal its links to the White House.

In one of the text messages obtained by the DOJ inspector general, and since released publicly, the lead FBI agent on the case, Peter Strzok, wrote in a Sept. 2, 2016, message to FBI lawyer Lisa Page that “potus [president of the United States] wants to know everything we’re doing.” Page was serving as counsel to then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

There have also been direct ties between the spying and the campaign of then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The FBI and DOJ relied heavily on unverified allegations contained in the so-called Trump dossier, paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-five-methods-obama-officials-used-to-spy-on-the-trump-campaign_2544292.html